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Did you know that a Catalan wine was secretly added to the classified Bordeaux wine category of the 1979 Gault Millau Wine Olympics and won?
Did you know that an Australian chief justice Terence John Higgins dismissed a defamation case alleging "lazy journalism" against an Australian journalist even though he found that the claim wasn't true?
Did you know that football referees in England officiate at eleven different levels according to ability, activity and age?
Did you know that the Barotse Floodplain is the second largest wetland in Zambia and also one of the most productive areas for raising cattle in the country?
Did you know that the Hyde Park Railroad Station in Hyde Park, New York was a day away from demolition when it was leased to a local rail historical society?
Did you know that the International Olympic Committee has shortlisted five cities — Athens, Bangkok, Moscow, Singapore and Turin — out of nine bids to host the first Youth Olympic Games in 2010?
Did you know that the Telefon Hírmondó was the longest-running telephone newspaper?
Did you know that the aphid Brevicoryne brassicae has been called a "walking mustard oil bomb" due to its use of glucosinolates as a chemical defense mechanism against predators?
Did you know that the ill-fated Yen Bai mutiny proceeded because a messenger sent to delay the mutiny was intercepted?
Did you know that Arthur Segal was prevented from exhibiting his art in Germany because of his Jewish background?
Did you know that Italian painter Parmigianino distorted nature for his own artistic purposes in the unfinished Renaissance oil painting Madonna with the Long Neck?
Did you know that Robert G. Pugh and his son, Robert, Jr., were the first father-son team to present oral arguments together before the United States Supreme Court?
Did you know that U.S. activist Kit Bakke went on from being considered a terrorist with a 400-page FBI file to become a nurse for children with cancer?
Did you know that Yegor Ligachev is renowned for being Gorbachev's main critic, even though he has repudiated that in many speeches and his memoirs?
Did you know that a series of storms in south-east Queensland spawned two of the most powerful tornadoes in recorded Australian history?
Did you know that a stone run is a stable and conspicuous rock landform caused by a myriad of freezing-thawing cycles and also called a stone river, stone stream, or stone sea?
Did you know that during the negotiations in Ostrów in 1392, the principal Polish negotiator, Henry of Masovia, bishop of Płock, fell in love with the sister of his opponent, Vytautas the Great?
Did you know that flutist Masakazu Yoshizawa was hired by John Williams to play the shakuhachi for the Jurassic Park soundtrack because the instrument sounded "like a dinosaur's cry"?
Did you know that forest brother Alfred Käärmann hid for 7 years from Soviet officials, spent 15 years in Siberian prison camps, had his passport stamped "annulled" and was banished from Estonia until 1981?
Did you know that the Allegheny Arsenal explosion on September 17, 1862 was the single largest civilian disaster during the American Civil War?
Did you know that the French chemist Louis Pasteur owned a vineyard in the Jura wine region that is still producing wine today?
Did you know that the T.G. Richards and Company Store is the oldest brick building in Washington?
Did you know that the Théâtrophone service (1890-1932) allowed the subscribers to listen to opera and theatre performances over the telephone lines?
Did you know that the city of Union Valley, Texas, population 226, incorporated in 2007 out of fear of annexation by neighboring cities?
Did you know that the massacre in Vinnytsia by the Soviet secret police NKVD in the purges of 1937-1938 was investigated in 1943 during the German invasion of Ukraine and used in the propaganda war against the Soviet Union?
Did you know that Bertram Fraser-Reid is a Jamaica-born chemist who founded a non-profit organization to find cures for tropical parasitic diseases like malaria?
Did you know that Chambercombe Manor is said to be one of the most haunted buildings in the United Kingdom?
Did you know that Colorado Rep. Stella Garza-Hicks dropped out of high school in the ninth grade?
Did you know that Emma Cunningham was acquitted of the 1857 murder of her landlord because she falsely claimed to be pregnant by him, and Victorian morality prevented doctors from physically examining her?
Did you know that Filipino film producer Narcisa de Leon did not start her career in the film industry till she was 61 years old?
Did you know that James Tennant took over from Sarah Mawe as "Mineralogist to Her Majesty" and he supervised the recutting of the Koh-i-Noor diamond?
Did you know that Mel Rose, the runner-up on the seventh cycle of America's Next Top Model, dropped the "-issa" from her first name because she "didn't need it"?
Did you know that Rob Carpenter retired from the National Football League after catching his second touchdown in the 1995 NFL playoffs?
Did you know that Roger Wilmut went on from typing out the episode list of a BBC comedy show to become a Guardian Top 10 author of books about British comedy?
Did you know that a prokaryotic cytoskeleton has been found in prokaryote organisms by recent advances in visualization technology?
Did you know that noitulovE, a cinema and television advertising campaign for Guinness draught stout, won more awards than any other commercial worldwide in 2006?
Did you know that some types of human learning can be described mathematically by Oja's rule, which is commonly used in image processing software?
Did you know that the Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company produced 90 navy tanker ships in two years, from 1943-1945 and employed over 18,000 people while doing so?
Did you know that the Barack Obama Muslim rumor has been circulating on the Internet since 2004?
Did you know that the Champawat tigress and the Tsavo lions had suffered injuries that disabled them from pursuing their natural prey, leading them to become man-eaters?
Did you know that the English engraver John Boydell founded the fashionable Shakespeare Gallery in London in 1786, but had to sell it in a lottery in 1804 after he was bankrupted by the Napoleonic Wars?
Did you know that the Pompallier Mission is New Zealand's oldest industrial building and printed some of the earliest texts in Māori?
Did you know that the Solomon Courthouse has twice served as a post office, and was the setting for a courtroom scene in The Hunted?
Did you know that the White House Entrance Hall had the President's seal removed from its floor in the early 1950s because President Truman thought it inappropriate to walk across it?
Did you know that the hazardous Welland Canal Bridge 15 featured a bell ringing whenever a ship made contact, warning the crew to check for damage?
Did you know that the subject of sex was central to The Antipodes, an English Renaissance play by Richard Brome, first performed by Queen Henrietta's Men at the Salisbury Court Theatre in 1637?
Did you know that xenobiotic metabolism is the set of metabolic pathways that detoxify xenobiotics, such as drugs and poisons?
Did you know that "Here I Am", the song chosen for the winner of Australian Idol 2007 to release as a single, has been heavily criticised by both finalists?
Did you know that American federal judge James Alger Fee ruled in 1942 that Minoru Yasui lost his U.S. citizenship after Yasui had worked for the Japanese consulate until the attack on Pearl Harbor?
Did you know that Bob Timberlake, an unsuccessful placekicker for the New York Giants who made only 1 of 15 field goal attempts in his NFL career, was an award-winning quarterback for the Michigan Wolverines before he was drafted in 1965?
Did you know that Dennis Franklin was the first African American quarterback for the Michigan Wolverines football team?
Did you know that Dutch artist Folke Heybroek's works include stained glass windows, iron and concrete sculptures, paintings, and textile designs, decorating about 70 public spaces in Sweden?
Did you know that Frank Rennie joined the New Zealand Army at age 16, to prove to himself 20 months in hospital hadn't crippled him, and went on to become Colonel?
Did you know that John Mawe, who studied the mineralogy of Derbyshire, was arrested as a spy in 1805 before publishing accounts of his travels in Brazil?
Did you know that June Bride, filmed with two versions of a dialog naming the candidates to the 1948 U.S presidency, opened in theaters with the wrong future president?
Did you know that Mahasthangarh (ramparts pictured) is the earliest urban archaeological site so far discovered in Bangladesh, dating back to at least the 3rd century B.C.?
Did you know that Project Lauren is the codename for an unannounced British airline that will provide service between the U.S. and continental Europe, bypassing the U.K., and that aircraft have already been acquired?
Did you know that Richard Whitaker's research into the correlation between surface temperature in the Pacific Ocean and rainfall in Australia contributed to the discovery of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation?
Did you know that William Hopper became the founder Chairman of the Institute for Fiscal Studies with hopes that it would lead to a more rational system of taxation in the United Kingdom?
Did you know that a summit, a spur, a wooden building and an avenue are named after Michel Croz, a mountain guide who died on the first ascent of the Matterhorn?
Did you know that although Adam Freeland has said that his 2003 song We Want Your Soul is about "the destructive side of consumer culture", Target tried to license the song for use in a commercial?
Did you know that as Navy production chief during World War II, electric drive pioneer Samuel Murray Robinson became the first staff officer to attain the rank of four-star admiral in the history of the United States Navy?
Did you know that double-stranded RNA viruses cause everything from gastroenteritis in young children to bluetongue disease in livestock?
Did you know that in 1846, Albert Tirrell became the first to successfully use sleepwalking as a defense for murder and arson in the United States?
Did you know that in Amgen v Hoechst, the House of Lords affirmed that an incredible similarity between two patents does not constitute patent infringement in the UK?
Did you know that in the 1659 English play The English Moor, noted for its use of blackface make-up, one main character implies that Blacks and Whites are created equal by God?
Did you know that royal favourites were often compared to mushrooms, as they sprang up overnight, and grew in excrement?
Did you know that scientists have used microbaroms for inverse remote sensing of the upper atmosphere?
Did you know that the 6th Canadian Infantry Division was raised in 1942 and disbanded in 1945 without having taken part in any World War II fighting?
Did you know that the Lombardy wine region of Franciacorta produces a style of sparkling wine that is more bubbly than frizzante but has less carbon dioxide than most sparkling wines?
Did you know that the Mosque of the Rose in Istanbul is so named because on the day of the Fall of Constantinople the building was adorned with garlands of roses?
Did you know that the allegorical Armada Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I commemorates England's defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588?
Did you know that the first Earl of Wiltshire was a Breton viscount, Harvey of Léon, who served Stephen of England in the first phase of the civil war called the Anarchy?
Did you know that the title of Dan Castellaneta's album of comedy sketches I Am Not Homer is a parody of Leonard Nimoy's first autobiography I Am Not Spock?
Did you know that there are more than 40 Community Rail Partnerships supporting local rail lines in the United Kingdom?
Did you know that Asit Kumar Haldar was the first Indian fellow at the Royal Society of Arts?
Did you know that Betzy Kjelsberg, a Norwegian member of the international feminist movement, founded or co-founded six women's rights associations and organizations?
Did you know that Etaples Military Cemetery is the largest Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery in France, with over 11,500 burials?
Did you know that Fred Ryan was instrumental in the development of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library?
Did you know that Henry Lomb became a co-founder of the Bausch & Lomb Company when he loaned $60 to his friend John Jacob Bausch?
Did you know that James Wayne "Jim" Tucker of suburban New Orleans will in 2008 become the first Republican Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives since Reconstruction?
Did you know that Jim Hermiston, a member of the Aberdeen FC "Hall of Fame", was cited for bravery after intervening in a bank robbery in Brisbane in 1999?
Did you know that Neil Riser, an incoming Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate from Columbia, Louisiana, began working at the age of fourteen as a logger?
Did you know that Pundravardhana was a territory, mostly in present-day Bangladesh, of the Pundras, a group of non-Aryan people, dating back to 8th-7th centuries BC?
Did you know that Robert L. Howard received his Congressional Medal of Honor while part of a Hatchet Force operating near the Laos–Cambodia border during the Vietnam War in 1968?
Did you know that in 1902, 23-year-old British archaeozoologist Dorothea Bate discovered a new species of dwarf elephant in a cave on the island of Cyprus?
Did you know that on the banks of Shitalakshya River, in Bangladesh, there are artistic weaving centres, where once the muslin industry flourished?
Did you know that the 1300 identified Mesoamerican ballcourts used for playing the Mesoamerican ballgame (see drawing) were all built in the same basic shape despite a span of 2700 years?
Did you know that the Bristol Packers American football team won every game in its debut season, but failed to win any in its final year?
Did you know that the Kiva Koffeehouse in the Canyons of the Escalante was designed by Bradshaw Bowman, the inventor of Bomanite, on property his family has owned since homesteading it in the 1860s?
Did you know that the Lachine massacre, in which Iroquois warriors destroyed a New France settlement on Montreal Island, was instigated by English forces in New York following the declaration of King William's War?
Did you know that the field of DNA nanotechnology has used the unique molecular recognition properties of DNA to construct two-dimensional lattices, nanomechanical devices, computers, polyhedra, and even a smiley face out of DNA?
Did you know that the mythical Connla's Well, home to the Salmon of Wisdom, is the legendary source of the Shannon and Boyne Rivers as well as Irish poetic inspiration?
Did you know that the surrender of Japanese troops in China was first announced in a Chinese language by Dr. Ernest B. Price in October 1945?
Did you know that the urn atop Charles Bulfinch's grave in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Massachusetts, U.S. once stood at the center of Franklin Place, Boston?
Did you know that Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority founder, Margaret Flagg Holmes and her husband were received by Pope Pius XI in 1931?
Did you know that Gazell Macy DuBois designed the Ontario pavilion at Expo 67 which looked like "a mess of paper triangles or mentally disarranged envelopes"?
Did you know that Hadspen House has been owned by the family of Henry Hobhouse since 1785?
Did you know that Irena Iłłakowicz, a secret agent of the Polish resistance during WWII, was formerly married to a Persian prince?
Did you know that KGB head Ivan Serov did not go on tour in Britain as planned because the British press labelled him "Ivan the Terrible"?
Did you know that Michigan Wolverines football  player Bill Yearby was an All-American football player as well as a champion shot putter who the coaches felt could have starred for the Wolverines basketball team?
Did you know that Michigan Wolverines football  player Jim Pace not only won the Chicago Tribune Silver Football as the Most Valuable Player in the Big Ten Conference, but also won the Big Ten 60-yard indoor dash title?
Did you know that Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heaney's poem "January God" is about a stone sculpture called the Boa Island Janus figure?
Did you know that Ornatifilum is likely to be the oldest known fossil fungus?
Did you know that Queensland MP Peter Wellington held the balance of power for four months, until a by-election allowed the Australian Labor Party to form a majority government?
Did you know that R Family Vacations offered the first all-gay and lesbian family vacation packages where LGBT parents can bring their children?
Did you know that Sam Little, a retired farmer from Bastrop, Louisiana, was elected to the Louisiana House of Representatives by a margin of only 9 votes out of 7,863 cast in a low-turnout contest?
Did you know that Thomas Bancroft's Times out of Tune (1658) includes verses against whoring, gluttony, alcoholism, hedonism, lying, pride in clothing, betrayal, ambition,  cowardice, and the abuse of poetry?
Did you know that William Scrots, King's Painter to  Henry VIII and his son Edward VI, was paid a salary twice as large as that of his predecessor, Hans Holbein?
Did you know that although Ohio State Buckeye Archie Griffin defended the Heisman Trophy in 1975, Michigan Wolverines football player Gordon Bell won the 1975 Big Ten rushing championship?
Did you know that as cricket in Ireland is organised on an All-Ireland basis, a team representing Northern Ireland has appeared just once, at the 1998 Commonwealth Games cricket tournament?
Did you know that certain biological neuron models are a literally spherical cow, in that the cell is approximated to be a sphere?
Did you know that during the winter the Romans of the Mosel wine region would drink their wine hot like a tea?
Did you know that in 1866 Polish exilees to Siberia staged an uprising trying to escape to China?
Did you know that the green-flag wielding Republican Army defeated the Spanish forces during the Battle of Rosillo at Salado Creek in San Antonio and established the first Texas Republic in April 1813?
Did you know that the tallest building in Jersey City, New Jersey is the 781-foot (238 m) 30 Hudson Street?
Did you know that until Darren Cheeseman's win in 2007, the Australian seat of Corangamite had not been won by a Labor candidate in over 70 years?
Did you know that Alexandre Bontemps, senior head valet to Louis XIV of France, was a rich and powerful figure, feared by courtiers, whose behaviour was reported to him by the Swiss Guard?
Did you know that Eagle River, Wisconsin is known as the "Snowmobile Capital of the World" because it hosts the World Championship Snowmobile Derby?
Did you know that Frank Fulco, a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives between 1956 and 1972, was once honored on his House floor by the government of Italy for his long involvement in Italian American causes?
Did you know that Haiti has the lowest coverage of electricity in the Western Hemisphere, with only about 12.5% of the population having regular access to electricity?
Did you know that John Straffen, a triple child-killer who escaped from Broadmoor, served 55 years in prison becoming the longest-serving prisoner in British history?
Did you know that Lesbian wines were some of the most highly sought after wines of the Ancient Greeks?
Did you know that Norma Elizabeth Boyd, founder of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, was a United Nations observer in 1949 and supported the Principle 10 of the Declaration of Human Rights?
Did you know that Republican Jerry Sonnenberg was the only member of the largest class of freshman legislators in the history of the Colorado House of Representatives to be elected to an open seat without opposition?
Did you know that Somerset cricket captain Jack Meyer was entrusted with the education of seven Indian boys, six of them princes, and founded the Millfield School to do so?
Did you know that Washington Ellsworth Lindsey became the third Governor of New Mexico after his predecessor died while in office?
Did you know that a silver dish thought to be the Ancient Roman Risley Park Lanx was on display in the British Museum for several years before being determined to be a complete fabrication?
Did you know that billionaire Leonore Annenberg (pictured, left), wife of business magnate Walter Annenberg, was the Chief of Protocol of the United States from 1981 to 1982 under President Ronald Reagan?
Did you know that in 1512, the 2nd Marquess of Dorset unsuccessfully led an English army to France to reconquer Aquitaine, which had been lost during the Hundred Years' War?
Did you know that no viable solution has yet been found to counteract radiation from space, which is a serious threat to astronauts on any future mission to Mars?
Did you know that safety Don Dufek was cut from the Seattle Seahawks four times?
Did you know that the Alicante Bouschet is the only Vitis vinifera wine grape with red juice?
Did you know that the Hudson River Historic District is, at 35 square miles (89 km²), the largest Registered Historic District in the contiguous United States?
Did you know that the Swedish-American entrepreneur Lars-Eric Lindblad who led the first tourist expedition to Antarctica in 1966, for many years operated his own vessel, the MS Lindblad Explorer, in the region?
Did you know that the United Overseas Bank's 20-story Bangkok headquarters is shaped  like a robot?
Did you know that the haor located in north-eastern Bangladesh, is a bowl-shaped depression with such vast stretches of turbulent water that it is thought of as a sea during a monsoon?
Did you know that the new airport being constructed near Islamabad, Pakistan will be named Gandhara International Airport, after the ancient kingdom Gandhara?
Did you know that Euphronios (work pictured), Hermonax and the Providence Painter were Greek vase painters of the early 5th century BC specialised in Red-figure pottery and that the Belly Amphora by the Andokides Painter‎ is one of the earliest works in that style?
Did you know that Genesis's rock epic "Get 'Em Out by Friday" is a criticism of the United Kingdom's council housing system?
Did you know that George Lilja once played a Michigan Wolverines football game wearing another player's jersey, confusing many of his fans?
Did you know that HMS Drake was so ill-prepared for action against John Paul Jones's Ranger that musket balls had to be passed round in a hat during the North Channel naval duel, 24 April 1778?
Did you know that Irish indie rock band Ham Sandwich were encouraged by U2 frontman Bono to change their name in 2006?
Did you know that Jarrett Irons was the second freshman to lead the Michigan Wolverines football team in tackles?
Did you know that Kazakh dissident Rashid Nugmanov's directorial debut, Igla, was one of the first films to break the taboo against talking about drug addiction in the former Soviet Union and initiated the "Kazakh New Wave" cinema movement?
Did you know that Rev. Robert Shields maintained a diary chronicling every five minutes of his life for 25 years from 1972 until 1997, and only slept two hours at a time so he could record his dreams?
Did you know that Ricord's Iguana (Cyclura ricordi) of Hispaniola is the only known species of rock iguana to coexist with the Rhinoceros Iguana (Cyclura cornuta)?
Did you know that Simonsbath on Exmoor is the largest parish in Somerset covering 56 square miles (145.0 km2) but only has 75 houses?
Did you know that Turkish serial killer Özgür Dengiz broke into fits of laughter when discussing his cannibalism?
Did you know that Wayne Townsend cast the tie-breaking vote in 1977 in the Indiana State Senate for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment making Indiana the last state to approve the failed measure?
Did you know that a daughter of Philip Johnston, the first colonel of the New Jersey militia to die in battle during the Revolutionary War married the son of Nathaniel Scudder, the last colonel of the New Jersey militia to so die?
Did you know that according to legend, Christian martyr Saint Getulius and his associates were clubbed to death after they had been thrown into flames but emerged unharmed?