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Did you know that California '49er Stephen William Shaw helped discover Humboldt Bay, painted over 200 portraits of San Francisco notables, and started growing grapes in Sonoma County?
Did you know that Dutch American biochemist Donald Van Slyke discovered the amino acid hydroxylysine, and was the first recipient of the American Medical Association's Scientific Achievement Award?
Did you know that GCH Foxcliffe Hickory Wind's victory at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show this year beat odds of 60–1?
Did you know that Howard Arman conducted Handel's opera Tolomeo in 1996 for the Handel Festival in Halle, where the composer was born on 23 February 1685?
Did you know that Khabur ware pottery was named after the Khabur River region in northeastern Syria, where large quantities of it were found by archaeologist Max Mallowan at the site of Chagar Bazar?
Did you know that Rosie's Diner, featured in the Bounty paper towel commercials in the U.S., was sawed in half and moved from Little Ferry, New Jersey, to Rockford, Michigan, in 1990?
Did you know that St. Louis, Missouri, has the most slave freedom suits available to researchers in the United States, and 301 cases are searchable online?
Did you know that Thomas W. Stivers was issued the Medal of Honor for his actions at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, but he was murdered in a business dispute before he could receive his medal?
Did you know that Uncial 0321, thought to be the same as Uncial 067 for 164 years, was recently recognized as being a separate manuscript?
Did you know that a dachshund named Lump once ate a work by Pablo Picasso?
Did you know that according to Victor Gardthausen, Codex Sinaiticus is younger than Codex Vaticanus by at least 50 years?
Did you know that after Washington, D.C.'s Hoover Field and Washington Airport merged to create Washington-Hoover Airport in 1933, a highway bisected the conjoined airfield's main runway (plane take-off pictured)?
Did you know that after a fox took shelter in the ruins of Capel Lligwy, in Anglesey, north Wales, a vault was discovered containing "a large mass of human bones, several feet in depth"?
Did you know that during World War II, Derby Art Gallery's Ernest Townsend created camouflage designs to make Spitfire engine factories look like a village from the air?
Did you know that in 1906, Albert Clément drove a Clément-Bayard to finish third in the first international motorsport Grand Prix?
Did you know that in 1984, while Queen's song "I Want to Break Free" charted within the Top 10 in Europe and South America, its video was banned in the US?
Did you know that in order to save David Nowakowsky's music from destruction by the Nazis, thousands of pages of his work were buried under a dung heap at a farm in France?
Did you know that the 3rd Earl of Egremont (bust pictured) simultaneously maintained around 15 mistresses with more than 40 children at Petworth House?
Did you know that the British destroyer HMS Greyhound initiated the night phase of the Battle of Cape Matapan on 28/29 March 1941 when her searchlight illuminated an Italian cruiser?
Did you know that the Byzantine general Nikephoros Melissenos proclaimed himself emperor, but submitted to his brother-in-law, Alexios I Komnenos, in exchange for the title of Caesar?
Did you know that the Glee episode "Comeback" was originally rumored to be a Justin Bieber tribute, but his music only served as "a small plot point"?
Did you know that the LoDaisKa Site in Colorado was occupied for 7,500 years, starting in the Paleo-Indian period?
Did you know that the churchyard of St Caian's Church, Tregaian, Wales, contains the grave of a man who died in 1581 aged 105 with over 40 children and 300 living descendants?
Did you know that the location of BHP Billiton's Yeelirrie uranium project is referred to by the local Aborigines as a "place of death"?
Did you know that the magnetochemistry of gadolinium compounds makes them the most suitable contrast agents for MRI scans?
Did you know that Gerhard Taschner recorded the Violin Concerto dedicated to him by Wolfgang Fortner, with both Wilhelm Furtwängler and Hans Rosbaud?
Did you know that Jarvis Hall, a former chapel in Steyning, West Sussex, has housed a bottling plant, a gym, a dance school, and four Nonconformist congregations—including Methodists who moved out and built a larger church nearby?
Did you know that Major League Baseball's Baltimore Orioles have never selected a player at first base in the first round of the MLB Draft?
Did you know that Nels Nelsen, at the time holder of the world's longest ski jump set at Big Hill, was not allowed to participate in the 1928 Winter Olympics because officials thought it inappropriate for an athlete to work for his fare on a freighter?
Did you know that Niqmepa was installed as King of Ugarit, an ancient city-state in northwest Syria, by Hittite king Mursili II, who had forced his brother, Arhalba, to abdicate?
Did you know that Sean Hughes MP got Scottish MPs to give him their free tickets to the 1986 English FA Cup Final so his constituents could watch the Everton–Liverpool Merseyside derby?
Did you know that St Dona's Church, Llanddona, Wales, was rebuilt in 1873 with the rector at the time acting as the architect?
Did you know that a steam-powered cannon, the Architonnerre, was described by Leonardo da Vinci in the 15th century, but he attributed it to Archimedes of the 3rd century BC?
Did you know that actor Kirk Acevedo suggested his real-life wife play his character's spouse in the Fringe episode "Unleashed"?
Did you know that commanding prices up to $400,000, pre–World War II versions of the Martin D-45 guitar (first made for Gene Autry) are the most expensive production-model guitars in the United States?
Did you know that in 1918, terrorists opened fire on Lenin's car after he gave a speech at Saint Petersburg's Mikhailovsky Manege, but Lenin escaped unscathed?
Did you know that many readers credited Deborah Tannen's bestselling 1990 book on language and gender, You Just Don't Understand, with helping to save their marriages?
Did you know that the 14th-century Church of St Mary in Barton Bendish, Norfolk, contains a 12th-century doorway moved from a nearby church when that was demolished?
Did you know that the 1977 dissolution of Rosendale Village in Upstate New York was viewed by its mayor as a work of conceptual art?
Did you know that the Belitung shipwreck was an Arabian dhow which was sewn together, and held the "Tang treasure", including the largest gold Tang cup ever found?
Did you know that the Scottish Redundant Churches Trust, a charity founded in 1996, looks after redundant Church of Scotland churches and currently has five buildings under its care?
Did you know that the mushroom Cortinarius vanduzerensis is so slimy that it has been described as "much too slippery to be of value"?
Did you know that the prehistoric Neolithic Tell Ramad, located 20 kilometres (12 mi) southwest of Damascus in Syria, is considered one of the few sites fundamental to our understanding of the origin of agriculture?
Did you know that the strong colors in Paul Gauguin's Spirit of the Dead Watching are symbolic of the native Polynesian belief that phosphorescent lights were manifestations of the spirits of the dead?
Did you know that the three mine policy, in place from 1984 to 1996, restricted the number of active uranium mines in Australia to three?
Did you know that the two largest Gettysburg Battlefield monuments "Pennsylvania State Memorial" and "Eternal Light Peace Memorial" were dedicated, respectively, on the 50th and 75th anniversaries of the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg, at battlefield reunion encampments?
Did you know that until Sony introduced a competitor in 1968, every color television in the world used RCA's shadow mask tube design?
Did you know that when Bulgarian politician Rayko Daskalov was released from prison in 1918 with the task of stopping a soldiers' uprising, he went on to take charge of the rebellion instead?
Did you know that Charles Lapworth worked closely with both Eugene V. Debs and Charlie Chaplin?
Did you know that Ethiopian long-distance runner Sentayehu Ejigu won medals at World, African and Continental-level competitions in 2010?
Did you know that Frederick Merriman was the first Chairman of Committees in New Zealand?
Did you know that French actor Sebastian Roché replaced German actor Thomas Kretschmann in the Fringe episode "Momentum Deferred", as Kretschmann was unable to be a recurring character?
Did you know that Medal of Honor recipient Cornelius C. Smith later led U.S. troops during the Philippine Insurrection?
Did you know that Nepal Transport Service, founded in 1959, was the first Nepalese public bus line?
Did you know that Reed Hadley starred in two 1950s CBS drama television series, including The Public Defender in the role of an attorney for the indigent?
Did you know that Royal Marine Lieutenant General Sir James Dutton was sent to The Pentagon as a liaison in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks in 2001?
Did you know that Sir Richard Herbert was the illegitimate son of William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke, and Maud, daughter of Adam ap Howell Graunt?
Did you know that St Gallgo's Church, Llanallgo, Wales, was used as a temporary mortuary following the 1859 wreck of the Royal Charter, which claimed over 400 lives?
Did you know that among the WWI dead commemorated at the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge was one enemy soldier, the Hungarian poet, Ferenc Békássy?
Did you know that automotive manufacturing is a significant industry in Russia, directly employing around 600,000 people and supporting 2–3 million people in related industries?
Did you know that devotions to the Holy Name of Jesus exist both in Eastern and Western Christianity?
Did you know that during his United States Army service, Graciela replaced her foster brother Machito as the lead singer of his band, the Afro-Cubans?
Did you know that it was reported that Australian cricketer Michael Swart was called up to represent the Netherlands at the 2011 Cricket World Cup, but he didn't make the final team?
Did you know that physical chemist Sir Eric Keightly Rideal was depicted in the novels The Search and Strangers and Brothers written by his former student, C. P. Snow?
Did you know that pottery boat models found at Tell Mashnaqa, northeastern Syria, suggest that people of the Khabur region had already made use of boats for transport and fishing by c. 5000 BC, if not before?
Did you know that the 1641 edition Selva morale e spirituale by Claudio Monteverdi is considered his "most significant anthology of liturgical works since the Vespers in 1610"?
Did you know that the 1980 Ispaster attack was the Basque separatist group ETA's deadliest of 1980, the year in which they killed more people than any other?
Did you know that the British destroyer HMS Gallant struck a mine on 10 January 1941 that blew the bow off the ship, and had to be towed stern-first to Malta by the destroyer HMS Mohawk?
Did you know that the Love Tester, created in 1969, was the first product by Nintendo to use real electronic components?
Did you know that the adventure based holiday centre at Caythorpe Court, Lincolnshire, was originally a hunting lodge, and has also been a military hospital and agricultural college?
Did you know that the busiest route of the Weston-super-Mare Tramways ran from an Old Pier to a Sanatorium?
Did you know that the legal basis for the largest casino in the world derives in part from a violation of the U.S. federal Nonintercourse Act (1790) and a state statute lobbied for by Mothers Against Drunk Driving?
Did you know that the name Bucephalus, meaning "ox head", was given to a genus of trematodes because their cercaria larva seemed to have horns?
Did you know that Al-Wasat Party, officially established in the wake of the 2011 Egyptian revolution, is the first legal party in Egypt with an Islamic background?
Did you know that Bhadra Dam in Karnataka inundates a reservoir which has a gross irrigation potential of 162,818 hectares (402,330 acres)?
Did you know that Cholesbury Camp, an Iron Age hill fort in Buckinghamshire, England, was once thought to have been built by Danes?
Did you know that German conductor Fritz Lehmann left a recording of Bach's Christmas Oratorio unfinished when he died during a concert of the St Matthew Passion?
Did you know that Stan Brakhage's 1981 film The Garden of Earthly Delights was created by pasting montane zone vegetation directly onto strips of clear film leader?
Did you know that Time magazine described the Sunset Marquis Hotel in West Hollywood, Los Angeles, as "an old rock 'n' roll hotel", due to its association with rock stars?
Did you know that Zoni Weisz, a Dutch Sinto survivor of the Porajmos, has been listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for creating the world's largest flower arrangement?
Did you know that a 200-year-old costume worn by "the king" on Castleton Garland Day in Derbyshire is now in the local museum?
Did you know that actor Richard Armitage was subjected to waterboarding while filming Spooks episode "The Tip-Off"?
Did you know that before Amanda Staveley reportedly turned down a marriage proposal from Prince Andrew, she was a model and Cambridge student, and later became a self-made multi-millionaire?
Did you know that during the Siege of Güns, Captain Nikola Jurišić and his garrison of 800 Croats held out against 19 full-scale assaults and incessant bombardment by the Ottomans?
Did you know that in 1960, the founders of a Cafe church wondered, "Would Jesus want to hang out with folks at a traditional institutional church? Or would he want to hang out over a beer in a bar, or coffee in a restaurant?"
Did you know that in the roof of the chapel of St Michael's Church, Berechurch, Essex, are carvings of the emblems of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon?
Did you know that the Argentine "San Lorenzo march" was played when the Germans entered Paris during World War II, then again by U.S. forces when they liberated the city?
Did you know that the British destroyer HMS Hostile had to be scuttled on 23 August 1940 by her sister ship, HMS Hero, after striking a mine off Cap Bon which broke her back?
Did you know that the Madras Forest Department was established in 1855 by Dr. Hugh Cleghorn, "the father of scientific forestry in India"?
Did you know that the Pueblo Lands Act (1924) was passed in response to the U.S. Supreme Court's reversal of its position on whether the Nonintercourse Act applies to New Mexico?
Did you know that the Schoenau ultimatum contributed to the ability of the Egyptian and Syrian alliance to successfully launch a surprise attack against Israel during the Yom Kippur War?
Did you know that the eucalyptus El Grande, Australia's largest tree, was accidentally killed by forest officials?
Did you know that the maintenance shed at New York's Batavia Cemetery was originally a bank building?
Did you know that the ruins of St Andrew's Church, Covehithe in Suffolk are threatened by coastal erosion?
Did you know that Jordan's new justice minister, Hussein Mjali, called for the early release of Ahmed Daqamseh, the attacker responsible for killing seven Israeli schoolgirls in the 1997 Island of Peace massacre?
Did you know that Khor Virap monastery, where Gregory the Illuminator was imprisoned for 13 years by King  Tiridates III, is one of the most visited pilgrimage sites in Armenia?
Did you know that Lieutenant George C. Kimble, commander of the Gonzales Ranging Company, led 32 men from Gonzales, Texas, to reinforce the surrounded Alamo garrison?
Did you know that Luftwaffe group commander Alois Lindmayr led a formation of Dornier Do 17 bombers on a bombing raid into the heart of London on 15 September 1940, the climax of the Battle of Britain?
Did you know that St Mary's Church, East Ruston, Norfolk, is notable for its 15th-century painted and carved chancel screen (part of screen pictured)?
Did you know that Stan Brakhage's 1988 film I... Dreaming features Stephen Foster song lyrics scratched directly onto the film emulsion?
Did you know that The Monument of Matrones, the first anthology of English women writers, included devotional works by Lady Jane Grey and Elizabeth I of England?
Did you know that after winning both halves of the elimination round, the San Sebastian Stags were named outright champions of the 1988 Philippine NCAA basketball tournament?
Did you know that bass opera singer Richard Watson was given so many roles in the operas by Gilbert and Sullivan that his colleague Richard Walker left D'Oyly Carte Opera Company?
Did you know that both the Adena and the Hopewell left artifacts at southwestern Ohio's Beam Farm?
Did you know that former England cricketer David Gower scored nine centuries in Ashes series, the fourth most by any batsman?
Did you know that future Australian conductor and record producer James Walker was lauded as a "child wonder" after his performance on piano, organ and violin at age seven?
Did you know that in his works, Czech photographer Viktor Kolář focuses on documenting his native region, Ostrava?
Did you know that the Black Thunder chocolate bar is named after the Shinto god of thunder, Raijin?
Did you know that the Croatian Museum of Naïve Art, established in 1952, is deemed to be the world's first museum of naïve art?
Did you know that the John Kendrick House is the only remaining house of its era on the Green in Waterbury, Connecticut?
Did you know that the Louisiana State Rep. Simone B. Champagne of Iberia Parish lost a state Senate race in January 2011 despite having the support of U.S. Senator David Vitter?
Did you know that the Samedi division of the Royal Court, one of the Courts of Jersey, sits on a Friday, rather than a Saturday as the name suggests?
Did you know that the election on February 19, 2011, of Jonathan W. Perry to the Louisiana State Senate gives that body its first Republican majority, 20–19, since Reconstruction?
Did you know that the guidance system of the AA.20 air-to-air missile was based on that of missiles intended for use against tanks?
Did you know that the tribute act Zappa Plays Zappa, led by Frank Zappa's son Dweezil, won a Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance for their performance of Frank's song "Peaches en Regalia"?
Did you know that the video for Queen's song "Bicycle Race" featured several dozen nude women racing at Wimbledon Stadium?
Did you know that three of the five Moreton Island lighthouses, on Moreton Island, Queensland, Australia, had to be relocated because of coastal erosion?
Did you know that Bach used a four-note trumpet signal throughout the first movement of his chorale cantata, Erhalt uns, Herr, bei deinem Wort, BWV 126, for Sexagesima?
Did you know that British Lieutenant General James Bucknall is currently deputy commander of 130,000 troops from 48 countries in his role with ISAF in Afghanistan?
Did you know that Cincinnati's Scarlet Oaks was once the only known extant house designed by James Keys Wilson?
Did you know that Eduardo Iturrizaga became Venezuela's first and only chess grandmaster, at the age of 19?
Did you know that French cellist Jules Delsart was a soloist in the premiere of David Popper's Requiem for three cellos and orchestra, along with the composer?
Did you know that George Samuel Sewell was the first civilian to be awarded a bar to the George Medal, for fighting fires at a petrol refinery during the Hull Blitz?
Did you know that Gross Barmen, the first Rhenish mission station to the Herero in South-West Africa, was established in 1844 by Carl Hugo Hahn and Franz Heinrich Kleinschmidt?
Did you know that Japanese wrestler Maunakea Mossman made his wrestling debut in the United States at the Gary Albright Memorial Show?
Did you know that Jeff Krogh was credited with winning a NASCAR Winston West Series race even though he finished 35th in the event?
Did you know that Kararname was the name of the book of decisions of the first assembly of the Prizren League held on June 10, 1878?
Did you know that N. D. Cocea's republican activism in the Kingdom of Romania involved fabricating rumors about a peasant revolt, supporting Soviet Russia, and being tried for lèse majesté?
Did you know that Ralph LaPointe, namesake of the field house at the University of Vermont's Centennial Field, committed a league-record six errors in a baseball game for the International League's Baltimore Orioles?
Did you know that Swiss-born U.S. soldier Rudolph Stauffer was one of 22 Medal of Honor winners from Lieutenant Colonel George Crook's 1872–73 "winter campaign" against renegade Apaches in the Arizona Territory?
Did you know that a prehistoric chamber tomb is located in Avielochan in Highland, Scotland?
Did you know that although the composer Arnold Elston studied with Anton Webern in Vienna, he did not employ the twelve-tone technique?
Did you know that comedians Matt Besser and Nick Kroll appeared in the Parks and Recreation episode "Media Blitz" as morning zoo-style radio hosts named Crazy Ira and The Douche?
Did you know that in 1914, the Greeks living in southern Albania declared independence for Northern Epirus?
Did you know that slow lorises and their conservation are threatened by the exotic pet trade and traditional medicine?
Did you know that the Limon Railroad Depot is one of three remaining Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad stations in Colorado?
Did you know that the Spooks episode "On the Brink" is based on the financial crisis of the bank Northern Rock?
Did you know that the ancient Street Called Straight of Damascus, Syria, still connects the eastern gate of the old city with the western one?
Did you know that the long strap fern was one of the subjects of pteridomania?
Did you know that the mutualism between hermit crabs and the sea anemone Calliactis parasitica may require the presence of an octopus?
Did you know that 12 years after the U.S. Department of Education gave Blue Ribbon status to the Howard C. Reiche School in Portland, Maine, it was declared deficient under No Child Left Behind?
Did you know that Belgian artist Isabelle de Borchgrave creates life-size, painted paper sculptures of wedding gowns, shoes, needlework lace, and strings of pearls?
Did you know that British Army lieutenant Hubert G. Chevis was murdered in 1931 with a plate of poisoned partridge?
Did you know that British angler and author Frederic M. Halford, pseudonym Detached Badger, is known as "The Father of Modern Dry Fly Fishing"?
Did you know that Bulgaria mobilized more than 600,000 soldiers, or 12–13% of its population, upon its entry to World War I?
Did you know that Charles Dvorak missed the pole vault finals at the 1900 Olympics after being told the event was postponed, but returned to win the gold medal at the 1904 Olympics?
Did you know that Creal Reef, Queensland, site of Creal Reef Light, was named after a No. 101 Flight RAAF pilot who assisted HMAS Moresby with her surveys?
Did you know that Edgar Gilbert investigated the mathematics of shuffling playing cards?
Did you know that Gulliver's Travels is reportedly the only book read by comedy writer Bill Dare, creator of BBC satirical radio comedy Brian Gulliver's Travels, while he was at university?
Did you know that Maersk Line's Triple E Class are expected to be the largest ships in the world when they enter service?
Did you know that Ohinetahi, the historical home and formal garden in New Zealand owned by Sir Miles Warren, architect of the Christchurch Town Hall, was extensively damaged during the 2010 Canterbury earthquake?
Did you know that RSBY, the National Health Insurance Programme of India, offers cashless health insurance of up to ₹ 30,000 to the poor for just ₹ 30?
Did you know that St Faith's Church, Little Witchingham, in Norfolk had fallen into ruin by the time its medieval wall paintings were rediscovered in 1967?
Did you know that Val McDermid's novel A Darker Domain explores the social and emotional implications of the UK miners strike of 1984–1985?
Did you know that ampelographer Pierre Galet suspects that the Provence wine grape Tibouren was likely introduced to Marseilles by the Ancient Greeks, but could also be Middle Eastern in origin?
Did you know that artist Corwin Clairmont designed the Salish-Kootenai's tribal seal when he was 15 and it is still used today?