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Did you know that the libretto for Rameau's first opera, Hippolyte et Aricie  (1733), was provided by the seasoned playwright and librettist abbé Pellegrin?
Did you know that the phrase "doing a Leeds" has become synonymous in English football with the pitfalls of financial mismanagement of football clubs, after the demise of Premier League team Leeds United?
Did you know that the song "Fake Empire" by The National was used at the 2008 Democratic National Convention and in a video for Barack Obama's presidential campaign, which the band actively supported?
Did you know that the toy company Mattel lent the Will & Grace producers a $60,000 Cher doll prototype for the episode "Gypsies, Tramps and Weed"?
Did you know that American singer-songwriter Patty Griffin listened to Christian songs by Bob Dylan before writing for her gospel album Downtown Church?
Did you know that Australian singer-songwriter Tamas Wells produced his second and third albums while working in Rangoon, Burma, on a community health HIV/AIDS education project?
Did you know that Chloe Frazer of the Uncharted  franchise has been cited as an example of a video game character who accurately portrays  the desires and frustrations of human sexuality?
Did you know that Dwight Baldwin, a 19th-century missionary to Hawaii, is credited with saving hundreds of lives as a physician despite having only an honorary degree in medicine?
Did you know that Edvard Welle-Strand, father of the anti-Nazi resistance fighter Erling Welle-Strand, was an anti-Semitic writer especially active in the 1910s and 1920s?
Did you know that Karl Johanssen, foreign news editor in Arbeiderbladet and one of Norway's first radio personalities, was denounced on the front page of Pravda?
Did you know that Nick Offerman, who plays Ron Swanson on the NBC comedy series Parks and Recreation, has received significant praise and been called the show's "secret   weapon"?
Did you know that Pinguicula elizabethiae and P. orchidioides, two rosette-forming herbs found in Mexico, eat insects?
Did you know that Potlatch River, Idaho, was named Colter's Creek by the Lewis and Clark Expedition in 1805?
Did you know that Rafael de Izquierdo was the Governor-General of the Philippines during the 1872 Cavite mutiny which led to the execution of the martyrs Gomburza?
Did you know that Yue ware (example pictured) was an early type of Chinese ceramics that was exported as far as the Middle-East and East Africa from the 8th to the 11th century?
Did you know that a large concentration of Hagerman Horses, Idaho's state fossil, can be found at Hagerman Fossil  Beds National Monument?
Did you know that actor Paul Schneider initially felt insecure about  playing Mark Brendanawicz on the NBC comedy series Parks and Recreation  because he was unsure about the motivations of the character?
Did you know that after launching from Spain in 1789, the corvettes Descubierta and Atrevida visited Montevideo, Monterey, Macao, Nootka Sound, Dusky Sound and Doubtful Sound, on a four-year trip?
Did you know that after then Malaysian Foreign Minister Ghazali Shafie survived a plane crash in 1982, his death was incorrectly reported in The New York Times?
Did you know that at one time the OVW Heavyweight Championship was vacated due to the then-champion having a malignant brain tumor?
Did you know that less than two years after Fernando de Rosa was convicted of attempting to assassinate Umberto II, Umberto asked that he be pardoned?
Did you know that on August 24, 2009, an algae bloom hit Wickiup  Reservoir, dubbed as Oregon's best fishing for brown trout?
Did you know that prior to the construction of the first Florida  Governor's Mansion, governors of the state generally  lived in boarding houses  or hotels?
Did you know that the American blues singer and pianist Maggie Jones, who recorded 38 songs between 1923  and 1926, was billed as "The Texan Nightingale"?
Did you know that the Remington 887, which has many of the inner workings of the famous Remington 870, uses a unique polymer-based finish which makes it virtually impervious to corrosion and inclement weather?
Did you know that the Soviets scuttled the battleship Svobodnaya  Rossiia on 19 June 1918 in Novorossiysk harbor rather than turn her over to the Germans as required by the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?
Did you know that the building which today houses the Consulate-General of Russia in New York City was bought in 1946 by noted eye surgeon Ramon Castroviejo, who sold it to the Soviets in 1975?
Did you know that the crux gemmata or "jeweled cross"  was used to  represent the New Jerusalem and the Tree of Life in Early Christian and Medieval art?
Did you know that the illuminated Minuscule 569 was bought in Bulgaria in 1757, became a part of the Załuski Library, and was dispatched to Saint Petersburg in 1794?
Did you know that the pioneer wagon route known as the Applegate  Trail, opened in 1846  by Jesse Applegate,  crossed the southern end of the Goose Lake  Valley  on the way to southern Oregon?
Did you know that 18th-century painter Szymon Czechowicz established a school of painting and thereby greatly influenced Polish art?
Did you know that Alexander Wetmore assessed the extinct Eonessa anaticula as being an ancient type of duck, possibly due to its fossil's resemblance to the modern Oxyura jamaicensis?
Did you know that Carrie Jones is a multi-award-winning American author of young-adult fiction?
Did you know that Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon transported their zenith telescope on a featherbed 31 miles from Philadelphia to Star Gazers' Stone to begin surveying the Mason-Dixon line?
Did you know that Chitinamit in Guatemala was the first capital of the highland K'iche' Maya?
Did you know that Diskit Monastery is the oldest and largest Buddhist monastery  in the Nubra Valley of Ladakh, northern India?
Did you know that Garry Foulds is one of only five footballers to play 300 VFL/AFL matches for the Essendon Football Club?
Did you know that Hindi, Bengali, and Portuguese have all recently been proposed as official languages of the United Nations?
Did you know that Jane Leeves, who starred as Daphne Moon in the sitcom Frasier, appeared as a therapist in the Desperate Housewives episode "How About a Friendly Shrink?"
Did you know that Lorenz Schwietz, who as Royal Prussian executioner beheaded at least 120 people, shot himself dead?
Did you know that Rashida Jones, the actress who plays Ann Perkins in the NBC comedy series Parks and Recreation, was cast before the producers had determined what the show would be about?
Did you know that Ron Feller, a PIAT operator in the Israel Defense Forces, received the Hero of Israel citation for his actions in Operation Death to the Invader on July 18, 1948?
Did you know that The Simpsons episode "Boy Meets Curl" will see Homer and Marge Simpson compete at the 2010 Winter Olympics in mixed-doubles curling, an event that is not part of the Olympic programme?
Did you know that according to The Sportsman's Repository, the English Water Spaniel is the best dog for hunting waterfowl?
Did you know that although 1989's Typhoon Dan was relatively weak, the storm left hundreds of thousands of people homeless in the Philippines?
Did you know that animals at Qalqilya Zoo in the West Bank, including a giraffe and three zebras, were casualties of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?
Did you know that artist and hotelier Emile Brunel's studio in Boiceville, New York, is an imitation of a European farmhouse, an unusual style in the Catskills?
Did you know that in 1994, while baseball pitcher Kevin King was a member of the Seattle Mariners, he registered a loss on Opening Day against the Cleveland Indians?
Did you know that many of Bo Schembechler's assistant coaches at Michigan, including Milan Vooletich, Jerry Hanlon, Tirrel Burton, and Dick Hunter, had previously coached at Miami of Ohio, the "Cradle of Coaches"?
Did you know that mastitis is the most costly and most common disease in dairy cattle in the United States?
Did you know that some coral reef fish, like the lionfish, have venomous spines in their fins?
Did you know that the 1904 painting by Pablo Picasso,  The Actor, estimated to be worth over $100 million, was torn when a woman stumbled and fell into it?
Did you know that the Battle of Cuautla between the Zapatistas and troops of Porfirio Diaz, has been described as "six of the most terrible days of battle" in the Mexican Revolution?
Did you know that the Royal Australian Air Force's No. 1 Wing was often referred to as the 'Churchill Wing' because of  Winston Churchill's key role in its formation?
Did you know that the Sex Machines Museum, opened in 2002 in Prague, has a collection of approximately 200 sex devices?
Did you know that the crew of the Russian battleship Gangut staged a minor mutiny in 1915 when the executive officer refused to feed the crew the traditional meal of meat and macaroni?
Did you know that the name of the koala derives from the word gula in Dharuk and other Yuin-Kuric languages?
Did you know that when the Russet Sparrow and the House Sparrow breed in the same hill station, the House Sparrow prefers bazaars and the Russet Sparrow "more up market" houses?
Did you know that "Leslie's House", an episode of the NBC comedy series Parks and Recreation, features references to Wikipedia, Nirvana, Montell Jordan and the Iran–Contra affair?
Did you know that Aksel Zachariassen, a Norwegian revolutionary and later editor of Kongsvinger Arbeiderblad (1932–1941), was deported from the United Kingdom after a visit there in 1919?
Did you know that Alexander Aitchison was Hamilton, Ontario's first full-time fire chief, appointed in 1879?
Did you know that Canadian astrophysicist Victoria Kaspi was one of the first to observe the cosmic recycling of pulsars?
Did you know that Daniel Gotthilf Moldenhawer stole books to expand the Royal Danish Library, where he was chief librarian?
Did you know that Enviro-Capitalists: Doing Good While Doing Well is a book by economists Terry L. Anderson and Donald R. Leal that advocates free market environmentalism?
Did you know that Graham Court, called a signal achievement in NY apartment design and Harlem's equivalent to the Dakota, was the setting for a crack factory in the movie New Jack City?
Did you know that Parliament of Norway member Christian Stray owned the newspaper Agderposten?
Did you know that Seward's Success, Alaska, was a proposed city enclosed by a dome, which would have had a constant controlled temperature of 68 °F (20 °C)?
Did you know that St Michael and All Angels Church in Blantyre, Malawi,  was constructed of brick in the late 1800s by local builders, led by a cleric who had no formal architectural training?
Did you know that Swizz Beatz and Bono began writing "Stranded (Haiti Mon Amour)", a charity single for Haiti earthquake relief, over the telephone?
Did you know that The Other Hand by Chris Cleave was the only literary fiction novel on the 2009 British bestseller list without a Richard & Judy Book Club recommendation, a literary award or a film adaptation?
Did you know that despite only playing college football for two and a half seasons with the Northwestern Wildcats, Zak Kustok holds numerous rushing and passing records?
Did you know that early in his short acting career Tod Griffin played George Washington and Patrick Henry on NBC's Hallmark Hall of Fame anthology series?
Did you know that former Burnley chairman Bob Lord described coach Billy Dougall, who worked for the football club for 23 years, as the finest servant a club could have?
Did you know that in 1915, during the Mexican Revolution, Woodrow Wilson allowed Carranza's troops to be moved over US territory, contributing to Pancho Villa's defeat at the Second Battle of Agua Prieta?
Did you know that the Alvensleben Convention allowed Russian troops to cross the Prussian border in pursuit of Polish revolutionaries of the 1863 January Uprising?
Did you know that the Coniston Railway, which closed in 1962 owned two steam yachts on Coniston Water in Cumbria, England, one of which, SY Gondola, continues to run on the lake today?
Did you know that the Hindu goddess Varahi (statue pictured) is worshipped only in the night according to secretive Vamamarga Tantric practices?
Did you know that the Mexican land grant, Rancho New Helvetia, was given to German-Swiss immigrant John Sutter to serve as a buffer between Californio lands and "marauding bands of hunters and trappers"?
Did you know that the journalist and theatre historian abbé Antoine de Léris collaborated with abbé Laugier in the first French review of music, Sentiment d'un harmonophile, 1756?
Did you know that the kitchen wing of the Lace House in Canaan, New York, deteriorated so badly during a probate fight over the house that it had to be demolished and rebuilt?
Did you know that the kumbum of Palcho Monastery in Gyantse is the largest such structure  in Tibet?
Did you know that the last German Type UE II submarine, SM U-126 was commissioned on October 3, 1918, just a little over a month before the armistice at Compiègne?
Did you know that the parish church of Up Hatherley, England, was built because an elderly widow found it difficult to travel to a neighbouring village to worship?
Did you know that the plant Campanula isophylla is able to tolerate frost on the mountains of northern Italy, but not when grown in a pot?
Did you know that 1989's Typhoon Angela was the longest-tracked storm by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center of the 1989 Pacific typhoon season?
Did you know that Broadfield House in Crawley, West Sussex, has at various times housed a country club, a radio station and Crawley's New Town Development Corporation?
Did you know that Captain George F. Bond was known as the "father of saturation diving"?
Did you know that Fitznells  Manor, the last surviving manor house  in the borough of Epsom and Ewell  in Surrey,  UK, and a Grade 2 listed building, is now used by a medical practice?
Did you know that Major League Baseball's Milwaukee Brewers won an American League pennant in 1982 before moving to the National League in 1998?
Did you know that Oscar Wilde praised the location of a resort hotel at the foot, rather than the summit, of the Catskills' Mount Tremper because it provided better views?
Did you know that according to legend, the MacLeods were on the verge of being defeated at the Battle of Glendale by the MacDonalds, but their magical Fairy Flag was then unfurled, inspiring them to a hard-fought victory?
Did you know that former baseball pitcher Butch Wensloff served in the United States Army during World War II?
Did you know that in 1715, the Hudson's Bay Company enlisted the aid of a Chipewyan woman, Thanadelthur, to broker a peace deal between the Chipewyan and the Cree?
Did you know that subsidiaries of the aviation security firm ICTS International oversaw security for United Airlines at Logan International Airport on 9/11 and for Northwest Airlines Flight 253?
Did you know that the Hungarian diplomatic passport is the only travel document in the world granting visa-free access to all member states of the G8+5?
Did you know that the Italian attack against Greece was stopped in the Battle of Elaia–Kalamas, a few kilometers inside the Greek border, during the first days of the Greco-Italian War?
Did you know that the Mexican land grant Rancho Little Temecula in California was one of the few granted to an indigenous American, though the court's decision came after the death of the applicant?
Did you know that the clause of the Magna Carta prohibiting sentences of exile, except as the result of a lawful trial, refers particularly to the case of Robert Fitzwalter?
Did you know that the cookiecutter shark may use the absence of bioluminescence to attract prey?
Did you know that the fifth Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, Clarendon Lamb Worrell, turned down an earlier offer to become Bishop of Bermuda?
Did you know that the late 6th century AD gold Liudhard medalet is the oldest surviving example of Anglo-Saxon coinage?
Did you know that the mushroom Amanita strobiliformis has been said to smell like bleaching powder?
Did you know that the second Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, William Bennett Bond, was one of the shortest-serving Primates in the church's history?
Did you know that the turrets from the lead ship of the Imperatritsa Mariya-class battleships (remains pictured) were salvaged after she sank and used for defending Sevastopol during World War II?
Did you know that when the barque Pisagua collided with the steamship Oceana, it was the steamship that sank?
Did you know that with the introduction of the ROH World Television Championship in the Ring of Honor wrestling promotion, the television type championship returned to national exposure?
Did you know that Alabama is the first state in the United States to create its own legislatively enacted cabinet-level Department of Homeland Security?
Did you know that Cystoderma carcharias is considered an inedible fungus because of an unpleasant odor attributable to the presence of geosmin?
Did you know that Paul Chaffey voted Labour in 1997, the same year that he served as a Parliament of Norway representative for the Socialist Left Party?
Did you know that Perth-born Northern Territory Chief Minister Marshall Perron jokingly blamed Japan for denying him his birthright as a Territorian, as his family fled Darwin shortly before it was bombed?
Did you know that Project Stormfury attempted to artificially weaken 1969's Hurricane Debbie?
Did you know that Scotland international football defender Alex McLintock played as a goalkeeper during his time at Burnley?
Did you know that Swedish actress Meg Westergren, the daughter of Håkan Westergren and Inga Tidblad, had originally planned to become a fashion designer?
Did you know that The Art of Negative Thinking is an award-winning Norwegian film about a paraplegic who rebels against the interventions of his support group and its lead social worker?
Did you know that The Land of Green Plums by Nobel Prize winner Herta Müller, depicting life in a totalitarian state, became a favorite of Iranian activist Mohammad-Ali Abtahi soon after he was released from jail?
Did you know that about one out of five babies born from an abdominal pregnancy has a birth defect?
Did you know that after the Soviet battleship Marat was sunk during World War II by German Stukas, it was raised and used as a floating artillery battery?
Did you know that although heavily outnumbered, two UN battalions—one Australian and one Canadian—halted an entire Chinese division at the Battle of Kapyong (22–25 April 1951) during the Korean War?
Did you know that between 1930 and 1933, the Russian battleship Parizhskaya Kommuna carried a Heinkel aircraft catapult?
Did you know that during the German invasion of Norway, Minister of Justice Terje Wold told Police Chief of Oslo Kristian Welhaven to arrest fascist leader Vidkun Quisling if he got the opportunity?
Did you know that in 1963 Hughie Lee-Smith, who later painted the official portrait of New York City Mayor David Dinkins, became only the second African-American artist to be elected a National Academician?
Did you know that in Georgetown, Alberta, during the 1910s, coal miners were paid only $3 a day and indoor toilets were considered a luxury?
Did you know that the Gbedu drum is traditionally used on state occasions or during ceremones of Ogboni, the ancient Yoruba secret society?
Did you know that the Leo IV dwarf galaxy is one of the smallest satellites of the Milky Way?
Did you know that the World War II bombing of Canterbury on 1 June 1942 revealed a mosaic pavement which is now a scheduled monument, sheltered by the Roman Museum?
Did you know that the actor Read Morgan of NBC's western television series The Deputy played basketball from 1950 to 1952 for the Kentucky Wildcats?
Did you know that the career of pianist Lincoln Mayorga has ranged from hit rock and roll instrumentals to Gershwin recitals in Moscow, by way of Lumpy Gravy and Pete's Dragon?
Did you know that the eastern harvest mouse usually lives for less than a year in the wild?
Did you know that the role-playing video game series Xenosaga, the spiritual successor to the Xenogears video game, initially used the same composer, Yasunori Mitsuda, to write the music of the series?
Did you know that the town of Lille, Alberta, was named as such because its coal mine's financial backers resided in Lille, France?
Did you know that tympanosclerosis is a disease caused by the calcification of tissues in the middle ear, sometimes resulting in hearing loss?
Did you know that unlike some other songs Bob Dylan wrote about failed relationships, in "I Threw It All Away" he takes responsibility for the failure?
Did you know that upon hearing Robert Ambrose's work One Sweetly Solemn Thought, a gambler reportedly laid down his cards and immediately became a reformed Christian?
Did you know that Alasdair Crotach MacLeod is said to have prayed for six hours prior to ordering the massacre of almost the entire population of the Hebridean island of Eigg?
Did you know that Anne Jordan-Reynolds and her daughter Stephanie, founders of the non-profit HIP Haiti, escaped disaster at the Hotel Montana during the 2010 earthquake because of a glitch in their plans?
Did you know that British billionaire  Lawrence Graff purchased the Wittelsbach Diamond for approximately US$24.3 million and then recut it removing 4 carats?
Did you know that Gregory Slay, founding member and drummer for Remy Zero, also co-wrote the Emmy-nominated theme song for the television drama Nip/Tuck?
Did you know that Klaus Sunnanå, Kristian Gleditsch and Karl Evang were among the former Mot Dag members who became involved in the first Norwegian development aid project?
Did you know that The North Face is suing The South Butt for trademark infringement?
Did you know that World Chocolate Wonderland, the first chocolate theme park in China, showcases the world's biggest chocolate model of the Great Wall of China?
Did you know that a son of the first settlers of Mountaindale, Oregon, later was mayor of East Portland?
Did you know that according to A Bright Red Scream, millions of Americans regularly use razors, knives or broken glass to intentionally injure themselves?
Did you know that in 1686, at the Tōshiya archery contest in Kyoto, Japan, Wasa Daihachiro successfully fired a record 13,053 arrows in 24 hours, averaging nine arrows a minute and hitting the target 8,133 times?
Did you know that it is believed that the ghost town of Conquerville, Alberta, began its decline when the local high school closed?
Did you know that the 1900 Mutoscope film Sherlock Holmes Baffled was the first film appearance of Arthur Conan Doyle's character Sherlock Holmes?
Did you know that the 600-year-old Westgate in Canterbury, Kent, is the largest surviving city gate in England, with double-decker buses still squeezing through it (process pictured)?
Did you know that the Arab inhabitants of the Palestinian village of Hawsha, which was depopulated in 1948, kept a shrine named for the prophet Joshua?
Did you know that the Arab-born eunuch slave Samonas rose to become the parakoimomenos of Byzantine emperor Leo the Wise, and was even made godfather to his son, Constantine VII?
Did you know that the New Bedford Institute of Technology's original mission was to refine the skills of the textile mill workers in the city of New Bedford, Massachusetts?
Did you know that the Rubin test was once considered by many specialists "the twentieth century's most important contribution to the clinical study of female infertility"?
Did you know that the discovery of the Telfer Mine in Western Australia, officially attributed to Newmont Mining, has been claimed by French prospector Jean-Paul Turcaud?
Did you know that the names of French generals Raymond-Gaspard de Bonardi de Saint-Sulpice, Charles-Étienne Gudin de La Sablonnière, Jean-Toussaint Arrighi de Casanova, and Frédéric Henri Walther are inscribed on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris?
Did you know that the president of Coca-Cola Co. believed that a new-age label would doom Tab Clear, the company's clear cola answer to Crystal Pepsi?