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Did you know that as president of St. Petersburg College, Carl M. Kuttler, Jr. used to phone and send a card to each of the college's 1,000 full-time employees on their birthdays?
Did you know that association footballer Chris Clarke and his twin brother Matthew started their careers at the same club, Wolverhampton Wanderers?
Did you know that in San Francisco Arts & Athletics, Inc. v. United States Olympic Committee, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the First Amendment did not protect the use of the word "Olympics", over the objections of the U.S. Olympic Committee?
Did you know that the 1911 Sarez earthquake triggered a huge landslide, forming the tallest dam in the world?
Did you know that the Cultural Centre in New Caledonia was designed and built to echo the hut dwellings of the indigenous Kanak people?
Did you know that the Faith and Freedom Coalition was founded by Ralph Reed as "a 21st century version of the Christian Coalition"?
Did you know that the McPike Mansion in Alton, Illinois, is reputed to be one of the most haunted houses in North America?
Did you know that the Southwestern pygmy possum can give birth just two days after weaning a previous litter, even though this requires dramatic changes to her mammary glands?
Did you know that the extinct crocodilian Arenysuchus was part of the first evolutionary radiation of crocodyloids?
Did you know that Aenigmastacus, a fossil crayfish from Canada, belongs to a family only otherwise known from the Southern Hemisphere?
Did you know that Aspen Community Church has the largest pipe organ on Colorado's Western Slope?
Did you know that Cyril Perkins is the oldest living first-class cricketer?
Did you know that Faustino Aguilar's Pinaglahuan ("Fading Point") is one of the first novels in the Philippines to tackle social realism?
Did you know that Ivan Wettengel, 25th Naval Governor of Guam, once formed a bull-mounted military unit known as the Guam Cavalry?
Did you know that Manchester Hydraulic Power supplied the energy to wind the Town Hall clock, pump the Cathedral organ and raise the safety curtain at the Manchester Opera House?
Did you know that Nigeria is the world's largest producer of yams?
Did you know that Perth Amboy City Hall, originally built 1714–1717, is the oldest city hall building in the United States?
Did you know that Tammy Locke was called "an especially endearing little dumpling" for her role in 1960s western TV series The Monroes, but her antics on set included giving a live frog to the show's hairdresser?
Did you know that Victoria Roberts received an  Australian Bicentennial grant for  Australia Felix, a cartoon history of Australia?
Did you know that according to statistics from its National Road Safety Commission, Ghana loses US$230 million yearly due to road accidents?
Did you know that after John Law Hume, violinist on the RMS Titanic, was lost in the disaster, his family were sent an invoice for his uniform?
Did you know that at Villa de Etla's weekly market in Oaxaca, Mexico, one can find traditional merchandise such as a local variety of white cheese, frames for donkeys and goat barbacoa prepared in an earthen oven?
Did you know that blade-like teeth in the extinct mammalian family Ferugliotheriidae may have evolved into molar-like teeth in the Sudamericidae?
Did you know that in writing Busabos ng Palad (Pauper of Fate), Filipino author Faustino Aguilar was influenced by Alexander Dumas' novel about a prostitute with a golden heart?
Did you know that the Ghana Standards Board was established in 1973 and has a function of inspecting all goods that enter through the six entry points of Ghana?
Did you know that the Song of the Hoe, a Sumerian creation myth, describes the construction projects of the Sumerian gods at the beginning of the universe?
Did you know that the career of soprano Cornélie Falcon, star of the Paris Opéra, collapsed after she lost her voice in 1837 performing in the opera Stradella by Louis Niedermeyer?
Did you know that the common bonnet produces hydrolytic enzymes that contribute to carbon cycling?
Did you know that the hosts of Kermode and Mayo's Film Reviews recommend that cinemagoers avoid knitting, drug dealing, and model aeroplane assembly while watching a film?
Did you know that the inventions of Christopher Hutton helped 32 men escape successfully from World War II prisoner-of-war camp Colditz Castle?
Did you know that the one-footed form of the Hindu deity Shiva represents the cosmic pillar of the world?
Did you know that the site of the coach station in London used by the British Coachways consortium between 1980 and 1982 is now occupied by the British Library?
Did you know that when James Stewart recited his poem "Beau" on The Tonight Show, he moved host Johnny Carson to tears?
Did you know that Abdulai Silá is the author of the first novel to be written and published in Guinea-Bissau?
Did you know that Auburn player Moon Ducote kicked a 40-yard field goal off a football helmet, which caused a rule to be adopted against the practice?
Did you know that Celestial City, Imeko, was founded by the Prophet "Papa" Samuel Oshoffa, who left 34 wives and 150 children when he died?
Did you know that Charles M. Robinson was the College Architect for the College of William and Mary and designed more than 15 buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places?
Did you know that Dakota Territory judge Peter C. Shannon presided over the trial of Jack McCall and sentenced him to hang for killing Wild Bill Hickok?
Did you know that Ipswich Town lost 5–0 to Nottingham Forest in the 1978 FA Charity Shield, the annual competition between the previous season's FA Cup winners and Football League champions?
Did you know that Jaime Areizaga-Soto, the Senior Advisor to the Virginia Senate Democratic Caucus Chair, Senator Mary Margaret Whipple, is now running for the Senate?
Did you know that Kitty Carlisle, H. V. Kaltenborn, Boris Karloff, June Lockhart, and Robert Trout were among the participants in Who Said That?, the 1948–55 television game show based on quotations in the news?
Did you know that Mahmoud Shammam, the Head of Information of the Libyan National Transitional Council, was one of the leaders of the Marxist Libyan National Democratic Front in the 1980s?
Did you know that Meryl Fernandes, who plays Afia Khan in the BBC soap opera EastEnders, played a schoolgirl extra in 1993?
Did you know that Oklahoma football coach Robert "Doc" Erskine traveled more than 15,000 miles as a scout during one season?
Did you know that Percé Rock, one of the largest and most spectacular natural arches in the world, is an icon of the province of Quebec?
Did you know that William J. Toye pleaded guilty to forging folk artist Clementine Hunter's work, but said he despised her style?
Did you know that the 2009 film Korkoro is a rare cinematic tribute to those who died in the Porajmos?
Did you know that the Athenaeum museum of fine arts in Alexandria, Virginia, was built in 1851 as a bank, where Robert E. Lee had an account?
Did you know that the Bearded Helmetcrest of the high páramo of Colombia and Venezuela nests in the daisy Espeletia?
Did you know that the Disney bomb of the Second World War is thought to have been inspired by the Walt Disney cartoon Victory Through Air Power?
Did you know that the Heryford Brothers Building in Lakeview, Oregon, cost $100,000 to construct in 1913, and is still one of the most important commercial buildings in the city?
Did you know that the flèche faîtière and the Sun are depicted on one of the official flags of New Caledonia?
Did you know that the former Riede's City Bakery building is one of only two wood frame commercial buildings remaining in Aspen, Colorado, from its early boomtown years?
Did you know that when he was an educator, Texas State Representative Dan Kubiak published Ten Tall Texans, biographical sketches of, among others, Stephen F. Austin, Jim Bowie, and Sam Houston?
Did you know that 25-year old Eddie Reed, one of the youngest college football coaches in the United States, led the Loyola University of New Orleans to its only undefeated season in school history?
Did you know that Alabama author Wayne Greenhaw chronicled the African-American civil rights movement in the American South?
Did you know that Barbara Longhi's painting Saint Catherine of Alexandria is believed to be a self-portrait, presented as a devotional image to avoid the appearance of indulging in the sin of vanity?
Did you know that British stage-actor Kyrle Bellew was accused of being Mrs. Leslie Carter's lover at her 1889 divorce trial?
Did you know that Derrida's 1974 text Glas is printed in two columns, one commenting on Hegel and the other on Genet, woven around and separated by "marginalia, supplementary comments, [and] lengthy quotations"?
Did you know that Khaled al-Johani, "the only brave man in Saudi Arabia", was thrown into Mabahith's `Ulaysha Prison on the Saudi Arabian "Day of Rage"?
Did you know that Lust, Caution co-star Tang Wei was cut from the recent Chinese film The Founding of a Party following an objection by Mao Zedong's grandson?
Did you know that McDonald's does not have a policy of charging African Americans more for their food?
Did you know that a fairy ring of the mushroom Clitocybe geotropa in France is over half a mile (0.8 km) in diameter and 800 years old?
Did you know that due to President Theodore Roosevelt's objection, the Indian Head eagle originally lacked the motto "In God We Trust", and that Congress passed a law in 1908 to require its use?
Did you know that in Oregon's 1966 U.S. Senate election, each party's candidate had a position on the Vietnam War that was in direct opposition to the prevailing view of his own party?
Did you know that in later life Margaret King, a favoured pupil of early feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, offered maternal care and advice to her governess's daughter Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein?
Did you know that on 11 June 2011, rebels seized a major district of Sabha, long considered to be a stronghold of support for Muammar Gaddafi in the 2011 Libyan civil war?
Did you know that singer-pianist Rosie Vanier, whose musical style has been described as "Kate Bush on crack with Goldfrapp on synths", grew up in Bodmin Moor without electricity and TV?
Did you know that the Lincoln Theater in Los Angeles was known as the "West Coast Apollo" and featured performances by jazz legends before being converted into a church?
Did you know that the Los Angeles Dodgers drafted Mickey McConnell in the 31st round of the 2011 MLB Draft, despite his not playing baseball in four years?
Did you know that the Millennium Mills, a derelict icon of London's post-industrial docklands, is a favourite destination of thrill-seeking Urban Explorers?
Did you know that the State of Pennsylvania and its twin sister, the State of Delaware, were both the first steamboats to make a live radio broadcast and to show movies?
Did you know that the only casualties during Operation Slapstick were from the 6th (Royal Welch) Parachute Battalion?
Did you know that the season two finale of Community, "For a Few Paintballs More", parodied Star Wars as well as action movies The Wild Bunch, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, and Wanted?
Did you know that the starting point for Bach's cantata for the Feast of John the Baptist, Ihr Menschen, rühmet Gottes Liebe, BWV 167, was the Canticle of Zechariah, the baptist's father?
Did you know that 4,476 tickets were auctioned for the first concert by the "Swedish Nightingale", soprano Jenny Lind in her 1850–52 tour of the United States?
Did you know that Christina Grimmie's song "Liar Liar" from her first album Find Me shot to Number 63 on the US iTunes Singles Charts in less than 72 hours from its release?
Did you know that Mexico is the world's largest exporter of limes?
Did you know that Mississippi John Hurt's 1966 album Today! was one of the 25 recordings added to the National Recording Registry in 2009?
Did you know that RMS Magdalena was the third ship lost on her maiden voyage that had been built by Harland & Wolff, Belfast?
Did you know that despite conceding four goals in the second leg, English club Ipswich Town beat Dutch club AZ Alkmaar 5–4 on aggregate to win the 1981 UEFA Cup Final?
Did you know that in 1152 Alfonso the Battler rewarded Diego López de Lobera for his services during the Reconquista by giving him the castle of Manchones?
Did you know that in the early years of the First Baptist Church of Ossining, the oldest in the village, masters and slaves had equal status as members of the congregation?
Did you know that in the quartier of Mjikura in Mtsamboro on the north coast of Mayotte, there are the ruins of a royal palace and tombs from the time when it was an important town of the Sultans of Mayotte?
Did you know that mathematician Kosmas Balanos claimed in his work Antipelargisis that he had solved the problem of doubling the cube?
Did you know that the 8th-century penitential Excarpsus cummeani extends its scope to define penances for clerics also, possibly influenced by Saint Boniface?
Did you know that the Abbasid general and governor Abd al-Malik ibn Salih was accused by his own son of plotting to overthrow Caliph Harun al-Rashid?
Did you know that the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority has ordered the demolition of the Clarendon Tower due to damage from the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake?
Did you know that the ideas of Indonesian novel Pertemuan Jodoh are considered the opposite of Abdul Muis' earlier work, Salah Asuhan, which deals with the incompatibilities in Western and Eastern cultures?
Did you know that the most prestigious award of the association of World War II's black US airmen, the Tuskegee Airmen, is named for Noel F. Parrish, their white commanding officer?
Did you know that the sulfur-rich saline Laguna Hedionda (English: Stinky Lake) in Bolivia is notable for various migratory species of flamingoes?
Did you know that the white knight smells of honey and radishes?
Did you know that Artie Schroeck, who arranged the 1967 Frankie Valli song "Can't Take My Eyes off You", 30 years later wrote and produced a tribute to offbeat bandleader Spike Jones?
Did you know that Cock ale, described as a "provocative drink", was popular in 17th- and 18th-century England?
Did you know that Golden Pond, Kentucky, earned a national reputation for its moonshine whiskey distillers during Prohibition?
Did you know that Indonesian blues band Gugun Blues Shelter is scheduled to perform alongside Bon Jovi, Rod Stewart and The Killers at Hyde Park today?
Did you know that June mating displays of Photinus carolinus create moving bands of light and darkness that draw crowds one firefly scientist calls "obscene"?
Did you know that Sa Ngalan ng Diyos (In the Name of God) was a controversial novel that reveals its author's inclination to anti-clericalism?
Did you know that Second Baptist Church, once the largest African American–owned meeting space in the western U.S., hosted speeches by W. E. B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X?
Did you know that Sophia Romero's Always Hiding novel was just a "mild attempt" in revealing the Filipino American contributions to the American experience?
Did you know that ZenQuest Martial Arts Center was originally founded in 1972 as the Okinawan Karate School, and introduced Uechi-ryū karate to Berkshire County?
Did you know that although Museo Estatal de Arte Popular de Oaxaca's site in Oaxaca, Mexico, was donated to create a cultural center in 1904, efforts to establish a museum there did not begin until the 1990s?
Did you know that before the Gule Wamkulu dance, Nyau dancers (one pictured) observe a series of secret rituals associated with their semi-secret brotherhood?
Did you know that boro glycerine, an effective oral antiseptic used in the treatment of mouth ulcers, was once considered a potential cure for cancer of the uterus?
Did you know that high school basketball phenom Aquille Carr was nicknamed "The Crime Stopper" for his reputed effect on Baltimore's crime rate?
Did you know that in 1568, John III of Sweden preferred fighting Denmark–Norway and Lübeck for another two years to ratifying the peace treaties of Roskilde?
Did you know that only ten men of the 181st (Airlanding) Field Ambulance returned from the Battle of Arnhem?
Did you know that the British tanker SS El Grillo, sunk in February 1944 after a German air raid in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland, gave its name to a local beer?
Did you know that the common brittle star is a filter feeder and raises an arm to catch food particles floating by?
Did you know that the name of the medieval Church of the Holy Mother of God in Asen's Fortress, Bulgaria, is only a guess based on a partial inscription?
Did you know that the space industry is heavily dominated by the G7 countries, due to their extensive investment in the aerospace industry?
Did you know that the two chief engineers who worked on the Starved Rock Lock and Dam also worked together on the Panama Canal Locks?
Did you know that unlike at similar sites in the middle Ohio River valley, archeologists have found a cache of shaman's articles at the Bullskin Creek Site?
Did you know that China is the largest peach-producing (peach flowers pictured) country in the world, accounting for about 50% of world production, but is not the world's largest exporter of them?
Did you know that Joseph S. Freedman, professor of education at Alabama State University, worked in over 200 libraries and archives to prepare his series Philosophy and the Liberal Arts in the Early Modern Period?
Did you know that L. B. Kubiak's tenure in the Texas House of Representatives was both preceded and succeeded by that of his older brother?
Did you know that Linda November was the voice of the singing cat in the Meow Mix commercials, and sang tens of thousands of other jingles, including "Coke and a Smile" on the famous Mean Joe Greene Super Bowl ad?
Did you know that Māori warriors captured Russell, New Zealand, in the 1845 Battle of Kororareka from the British, who were then evacuated by an American ship?
Did you know that Oregon-based Povey Brothers Studio was known as the "Tiffany of the Northwest" for their stained glass (rose window pictured)?
Did you know that if your vehicle registration plate includes the allegedly cursed number 39, people in Afghanistan might think you're a pimp?
Did you know that in June 1981 South African authorities arrested eight members of the South African Youth Revolutionary Council, charged with preparing an armed uprising against the Apartheid regime?
Did you know that the Brampton Walk of Fame, meant to honour "Brampton citizens—both past and present", includes a plaque for actress Bipasha Basu, who lives in India?
Did you know that the John L. Nichols House was the home of the first architect to practice in Bloomington, Indiana?
Did you know that the Marinoan glaciation was one of the three Neoproterozoic glaciations that caused the Snowball Earth?
Did you know that the Next Generation Mobile Networks Alliance announced it would work with the Femto Forum on femtocells?
Did you know that the University of Arizona Museum of Art includes works ranging from a 15th-century medieval Spanish retablo by Fernando Gallego to the space art of Robert McCall?
Did you know that the rare and endangered Knowlton's miniature cactus is considered to be an adult when it exceeds 10 millimetres (0.39 in) in diameter?
Did you know that the storyline of James Franco's upcoming film The Broken Tower started out as his master's thesis at New York University Tisch School of the Arts?
Did you know that the tracks of the Oregon and Northwestern Railroad are well preserved, even though they weren't well-built and they have been flooded by Malheur Lake?
Did you know that the world's fastest computer is the Japanese K?
Did you know that two women who intended to buy Marsh Mill, Thornton, Lancashire, UK, were killed in an accident when the fantail staging collapsed?
Did you know that Glory of Russia Cape is in the United States?
Did you know that Harlan Crow's collection of statues at his Dallas residence includes those of Fidel Castro, Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong?
Did you know that Muslim Indian South African and communist anti-Apartheid activist Yusuf Dadoo was buried in Highgate Cemetery near Karl Marx's grave?
Did you know that Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest won an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects?
Did you know that Seattle's Hillman City neighborhood was named after a real estate developer whose fraudulent practices eventually landed him in a federal penitentiary?
Did you know that Tikal Temple IV, a Maya pyramid in Guatemala, was one of the tallest structures in the pre-Columbian New World?
Did you know that a Nasothek (example pictured) is a collection of noses?
Did you know that a secret clause in the 1463 Peace Treaty of Wiener Neustadt allowed King Matthias I of Hungary to hire John Jiskra and his Hussite mercenaries, who would later form the core of the Black Army?
Did you know that brain–computer interface chips, like those that connect a scientist's brain with test subjects in the Fringe episode "Dream Logic", have long been used in real life?
Did you know that each of the Five Discourses of Matthew has a shorter parallel in the Gospel of Mark or the Gospel of Luke?
Did you know that heraldic artist Pierre de Chaignon la Rose was a friend of historian George Santayana?
Did you know that in the Epic of Gilgamesh, the hero travelled through the cedars near Mount Hermon in Lebanon to find the Garden of the gods?
Did you know that the Bengali poem Annada Mangal eulogizes the Hindu goddess Annapurna?
Did you know that the Second World War Allies feared that Nazi Germany intended to use a secret underground rocket base in France to fire ballistic missiles (V-2 pictured) at New York City?
Did you know that the US fought Polynesian warriors in the South Pacific Nuku Hiva Campaign during the War of 1812, even though that war was against the British?
Did you know that the f-word did not begin as an acronym, as is commonly claimed, but is of much older Proto-Germanic origin?
Did you know that while at the New York Cosmos, association footballer Keith Eddy captained a team which included Pelé and Franz Beckenbauer?
Did you know that Franz Xaver Dorsch, the builder of Hitler's Atlantic Wall and Siegfried Line, founded Germany's largest independent planning and consulting company after the war?
Did you know that Japanese migration to Thailand dates back to the 1580s?
Did you know that Jeune Fille Endormie by the iconic 20th-century painter Picasso recently sold for nearly £13.5 million, and had only been on public display once?
Did you know that Judge Hugo Friend, who presided over the 1921 Black Sox trial, smiled as the defendants were acquitted and died in 1966 while listening by radio to a White Sox game?
Did you know that King George VI owned Royal Blue, a messenger pigeon that went on to be awarded the Dickin Medal for bravery during the Second World War?
Did you know that Maria Bashir, Chief Prosecutor General of Herat Province, Afghanistan, is the first ever woman Chief Prosecutor in Afghan history?
Did you know that Polish architect Stefan Kuryłowicz is credited with modernizing the architecture of Warsaw in the decades following the collapse of Communism?
Did you know that St Botolph's Church, in the town of Hardham, has the earliest known representation of St. George in England?
Did you know that The Guardian called Thomas Glavinic's debut novel Carl Haffner's Love of the Draw "one of chess's finest novels"?
Did you know that abuse of prisoners in Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq threatened to affect the accuracy of the Census of Ireland 2011?
Did you know that conservation efforts by residents of the Menai Bay Conservation Area in Zanzibar attracted 200 dolphins (one pictured) to the shores?
Did you know that efforts made by television journalist Alan Sepinwall partially inspired NBC officials to renew the television series Chuck?
Did you know that in August 1947 French authorities banned a pro-independence mass rally of the French India Students Congress, but were forced to withdraw the ban after spontaneous protests?
Did you know that the light of South Africa's Cape Agulhas Lighthouse was originally fuelled by the tail-fat of sheep?