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Did you know that Helen Yglesias, best known for writing the 1981 novel Sweetsir, died one day before her 93rd birthday?
Did you know that Maseru, the capital of Lesotho, was founded in 1869 as a police camp?
Did you know that New Zealand cricketer and Test match captain Merv Wallace has been called "the most under-rated cricketer to have worn the silver fern"?
Did you know that Old Catholic Cemetery was created for Roman Catholics after a yellow fever epidemic struck Mobile, Alabama in the 1830s?
Did you know that Oldbury-on-the-Hill, part of Didmarton, has a 30-metre (98 ft) Bronze Age round barrow called Nan Tow's Tump?
Did you know that Rev. D'Ewes Coke, colliery owner and philanthropist, was descended from Dr. George Coke, Bishop of Hereford who was charged with high treason?
Did you know that St. Finbar Church in Burbank, faced with a dwindling flock and changing demographics, was one of the first U.S. parishes to offer Spanish language Mass?
Did you know that anti-conscription activist Ivan Toms served as the only physician for approximately 60,000 people in a  Cape Flats shanty town during South Africa's Apartheid era?
Did you know that before working as biomechanist to the Indian cricket team, Ian Frazer helped Australian cricketer Greg Chappell develop a patented cricket training program?
Did you know that current International Bobsleigh and Tobogganing Federation president Robert H. Storey survived a 1966 four-man bobsleigh crash that took the life of one teammate and severely injured another?
Did you know that like building a better mouse trap, there is still a challenge for inventors to produce a kinder and more gentle scallop dredge?
Did you know that rugby union footballer Farah Palmer captained the Black Ferns to three consecutive Women's Rugby World Cup titles?
Did you know that the Battle of Mataquito, part of the Arauco War, was lost by the Mapuche after disaffected local Indians betrayed their location to the Spanish?
Did you know that the Battle of Palikao was a victory for the British and French forces during the Second Opium War which enabled them to take Beijing and defeat the Qing Empire?
Did you know that the Fifteen Guinea Special, one of the last British Rail steam services before the steam ban of 1968, was so called because of the high prices from popular demand for it?
Did you know that the Hebron glass industry goes back to at least the thirteenth century?
Did you know that the Maitreyi Express was launched on Pohela Baisakh in 2008 to revive the railway link between India and Bangladesh that had been closed for 43 years?
Did you know that the Tang Chinese government of Emperor Xuanzong achieved considerable savings from reforms implemented by Chancellor Pei Yaoqing?
Did you know that the Wrawby Junction rail crash involved a locomotive supposedly renumbered after a psychic predicted a locomotive with the original number would be involved in a crash?
Did you know that tourism in Zanzibar is the top income generator for the islands, out-earning the lucrative spice industry?
Did you know that Booksfree is the first online book rental company in the U.S. to offer flat rate rental-by-mail to its customers?
Did you know that Carl Hans Lody was the first German spy to be executed in the United Kingdom during World War I?
Did you know that Children At Risk, a Houston-based non-profit, publishes a biannual report, Growing Up In Houston, which tracks 130 Quality of Life Indicators?
Did you know that Chillenden Windmill was the last post mill built in Kent, replacing a mill that had blown down in 1868, and that it was itself blown down in 2003?
Did you know that Cognos Reportnet is compatible with multiple databases including Oracle, SAP, Teradata, Microsoft SQL server, and Sybase?
Did you know that Emmy Noether was called "the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began" by Albert Einstein?
Did you know that George Steiner's 1975 book on language and translation, After Babel, was the first comprehensive study of the subject?
Did you know that Hurricane Cosme in 2007 helped relieve a persistent drought in Hawaii?
Did you know that Joe Shell, the conservative Republican who challenged Richard Nixon for the 1962 California governorship was a champion football halfback in 1939 and 1940?
Did you know that John Lavarack was the first person born in Australia to be an Australian State Governor?
Did you know that Moti Masjid, built by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, was turned into a gemstone repository during the Sikh rule of Punjab?
Did you know that Poughkeepsie's Market Street Row includes one of the oldest houses in the city?
Did you know that Pullmantur Cruises is the largest Spain-based cruise line?
Did you know that Reuben Gaylord, the recognized leader of missionary pioneers in Omaha City, Nebraska Territory, has been called the "father of Congregationalism in Nebraska"?
Did you know that Richard Devlin, the majority leader of the Oregon State Senate, has faced Republican Bob Tiernan three times, in races for two offices?
Did you know that Secretary of War Robert Todd Lincoln sent the Secret Service and Pinkerton's detectives to find and capture convicted embezzler Capt. Henry W. Howgate?
Did you know that St. Cyril of Jerusalem Church was the site of the baptism of Clark Gable's son and the funeral of Mercury Seven astronaut "Gordo" Cooper?
Did you know that a diary attributed to Jose Enrique de la Peña claims that Davy Crockett surrendered at the Battle of the Alamo and was executed on the orders of General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna?
Did you know that actor Jason Beghe became best friends with John F. Kennedy, Jr. and David Duchovny when they attended Collegiate School in New York City?
Did you know that archbishop Joseph Signay cited the man's poor eyesight to delay Michel-Édouard Méthot's tonsuring?
Did you know that broken remains of three medieval high crosses were found in 1874 during the construction of Barnes Hospital in Cheadle, Greater Manchester, but the location of only one is known today?
Did you know that despite being dominated by the military elite, the Guatemalan Institutional Democratic Party was ousted from power in 1978 by a military opposition?
Did you know that despite being one of the strongest tropical cyclones to make landfall on Western Australia, Cyclone Glenda caused minimal damage and no deaths?
Did you know that even though his predecessor was a Republican, Democrat Kurt Schrader faced no Republican opponent in his 2002 run for the Oregon State Senate?
Did you know that film director Brett Simon taught film history, film theory and video production at the University of California, Berkeley while completing two degrees there?
Did you know that many gift books, decorative anthologies published annually just before the holidays to be given as gifts, featured popular authors of the day such as Dickens, Wordsworth and Poe?
Did you know that police patrolled Incarnation Church during the 2000 funeral of a Hispanic youth killed by Armenian-Americans?
Did you know that the Condemnations of 1277 at the University of Paris are cited by historians as the birth of science, as they forced scholars to question Aristotle and think about the physical world in new ways?
Did you know that the Delhi-Lahore Bus, a symbol of Indo-Pakistani friendship, continued running during the 1999 Kargil War?
Did you know that the Nez Perce thought they gave nicer gifts to the Lewis and Clark Expedition than they received at a meeting in the Weippe Prairie in 1805?
Did you know that the Pontiac Pacific Junction Railway to Waltham, Quebec was completed in 1888, but not opened until 1894, stopped in 1959, and finally was removed in 1984?
Did you know that the Poughkeepsie Trust Company building  has been described as the Hudson Valley's first modern skyscraper despite being only six stories high?
Did you know that the Rab battalion was a Yugoslav partisans unit of Jewish survivors of Rab concentration camp?
Did you know that the exposed bedrock of the Duluth Complex was formed from magma emitted when the North American plate began to split apart in the Midcontinent Rift?
Did you know that the gates of Warrington Town Hall, Cheshire, erected in 1895, had been shown at the 1862 International Exhibition in London?
Did you know that the mine countermeasures ship USS Scout used her sonar to locate hazardous sunken debris off the Louisiana coast after Hurricane Katrina?
Did you know that the southern terminus of the first suburb-to-suburb commuter rail in the United States is Wilsonville Station in Oregon?
Did you know that while James Howard was Mayor of Bedford in 1864, he entertained Giuseppe Garibaldi, who planted a Giant Sequoia that was later struck by lightning?
Did you know that Academy Award winner Going My Way was filmed at St. Monica's, and the irascible old Irish priest character was based on its pastor?
Did you know that Anglican archdeacon Kay Goldsworthy will be Australia's first woman bishop when she is consecrated on 22 May 2008?
Did you know that Charles Inglis, past-president of the Institution of Civil Engineers was expected to die during birth and was hurriedly baptised in his father's drawing room?
Did you know that Fritz Schilgen was the final torchbearer for the first Olympic torch relay at the 1936 Summer Games?
Did you know that Jamshedji Framji Madan was a pioneer of Indian cinema, whose film production company Madan Theatres Limited once controlled half of British India's box office?
Did you know that Johan Teterisa was recently sentenced to life in prison for waving the banned secessionist flag of the so-called Republic of the South Moluccas in front of Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono during a nonviolent protest?
Did you know that John Dick, the high scorer in the first-ever NCAA men's basketball championship, would later command the U.S. Navy supercarrier USS Saratoga?
Did you know that John Madden has most wins of any Oakland Raiders head coach?
Did you know that John Percy Farrar recommended George Mallory for inclusion on the 1921 British Reconnaissance Expedition to Mount Everest?
Did you know that Lionel Monckton, the most popular musical theatre composer of the Edwardian period, after dropping into obscurity by the end of the 20th century, recently has had two albums of his music released?
Did you know that Mulaut Abattoir provides Islamic-sanctioned slaughtering facilities to local Bruneian farmers and butchers?
Did you know that Omaha, Nebraska has a history of riots and civil unrest beginning just twenty years after the city was founded?
Did you know that Oregon’s first Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries, O. P. Hoff, was in charge of the first minimum wage law in the U.S. that was enforceable?
Did you know that Sha'arai Shomayim Cemetery was established by Alabama's first Jewish congregation and one of the oldest Reform Jewish congregations in the US?
Did you know that Sheenboro, Quebec, started as a trading post on the Ottawa River and has retained its character as a "Little Corner of Ireland"?
Did you know that Stewart White has presented the regional BBC News programme Look East for 24 years?
Did you know that Stonewall Jackson camped with his men at Carter Hall, and allowed his physician to perform a cataract operation on the owner, on the portico of the mansion?
Did you know that Tori Amos got the melody for her song "1000 Oceans" from a "dark angel" singing to her in a dream?
Did you know that Vasyl Krychevsky, a Ukrainian artist, designed the state emblem of the National Republic at the request of Mykhailo Hrushevskyi?
Did you know that a Muslim fundamentalist beheaded a statue of the Virgin Mary at St. Augustine's and carted a statue of Father Serra to a nearby mosque in October 2001?
Did you know that a proposed strategic road link through Bangladesh and its capital Dhaka will reduce the travel distance between the Indian cities of Agartala and Kolkata from 1,700 kms to 400 kms?
Did you know that at the height of its popularity, New York's Easter Parade drew crowds of over a million?
Did you know that cyber law author and professor Jonathan Zittrain co-founded StopBadware.org to distribute the task of collecting data about malware to Internet users at large?
Did you know that despite winning the 1989 World Indoor Championships, West German 400 metres sprinter Helga Arendt failed to reach the final round at the European Championships one year later?
Did you know that in medieval Europe, a town clockkeeper would often be well-paid to monitor and regulate the town clock?
Did you know that many of the lines for the Three Witches in Shakespeare's Macbeth are copied word for word from the 1577 work Holinshed's Chronicles?
Did you know that over 25% of Brazil's electricity is generated by a hydroelectric plant at Itaipu on the Paraná River?
Did you know that several songs from Michelle Williams's debut album, Heart to Yours, are tribute to the September 11, 2001 attacks?
Did you know that state senator Larry George sued Senate President Peter Courtney in an attempt to prevent an experimental session of the Oregon Legislature?
Did you know that the Iraq Veterans for Congress group includes the son of U.S. Congressman and former presidential candidate Duncan Hunter?
Did you know that the Japanese manga series Soul Eater by Atsushi Okubo has been developed into an animated television series that plans to adopt the source material over fifty-one episodes?
Did you know that the Main Building of Peace College was first used as a Confederate military hospital and regional headquarters for the Freedmen's Bureau?
Did you know that the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, founded in 1853, was edited for 68 years by the Lankester family?
Did you know that the Tang Dynasty chancellor Li Linfu, because of his treachery, was described in Chinese idiom as having honey in his mouth and a sword in his belly?
Did you know that the rare mushroom Hygrocybe aurantipes was first collected in suburban Sydney's Lane Cove National Park and may be threatened by water pollution and weeds?
Did you know that villagers in the drought-prone Ranibandh area in West Bengal's Bankura district migrate to neighbouring districts in the harvesting season?
Did you know that American photojournalist Daniel Smith was once kidnapped by members of the Mehdi Army and taken to meet Muqtada al-Sadr?
Did you know that Carl Agar developed new techniques for flying helicopters by flying high in the Canadian Rockies?
Did you know that Commodore Cruise Line was the first Florida-based company to operate week-long cruises around the year?
Did you know that Grand Duke Boris Vladimirovich, cousin of Nicholas II of Russia, was called "the terror of jealous husbands as well as of watchful mothers"?
Did you know that Juan Garcia Abrego, in 1995, was the first drug trafficker to be listed on the FBI's Top Ten Most Wanted List?
Did you know that L. B. Henry of Pineville, overcame a missing forearm at birth to become a plumber-businessman and then a statewide figure in Louisiana parish government?
Did you know that Lincoln's Lost Speech may have been so provocative that it was intentionally suppressed?
Did you know that Po-on and the rest of the Rosales Saga novel series by F. Sionil José  resemble the story-telling tradition found in the U.S.A. trilogy by John Dos Passos?
Did you know that Sir John Betjeman wrote of Joan Jackson (née Hunter Dunn) being "Furnish'd and burnish'd by Aldershot sun"?
Did you know that Wilf Hurd, a former member of the British Columbia Legislative Assembly, resigned less than a year after being re-elected?
Did you know that although spoken by less than 18,686 people, the Kulung language has eight dialects and covers the "Mahakulung" ethno-linguistic area?
Did you know that founder Maria Weston Chapman was able to persuade Elizabeth Barrett Browning to submit anti-slavery poetry twice to the abolitionist fundraising gift book The Liberty Bell?
Did you know that in 2006 Austrian alpine style mountain climber Christian Stangl went up the northeast ridge route of Everest from Camp III (elev. 6,500 m) to the summit (elev. 8,848 m), alone and without an oxygen tank, in the record time of 16h 42min?
Did you know that in his first major league appearance, Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Jim Nelson struck out Willie Mays and got Willie McCovey to hit into a double play?
Did you know that the Palace of Culture and Science defining socialist realism in Poland, was designed in the Soviet Union and erected by 3500 Soviet workers brought into Warsaw in 1952–1955?
Did you know that the Saskatchewan Ministry of Highways and Infrastructure employs 1,476 employees diversified amongst 105 communities, maintaining 198,239 kilometres (123,180.0 mi) of roads and highways?
Did you know that the Winchester Bible, the largest surviving 12th-century English Bible, incorporated the skins of 250 calves?
Did you know that the four main influential figures to Filipino women writers are Gabriela Silang, Leonor Rivera, Imelda Marcos and Corazon Aquino?
Did you know that the inscription on King Ahiram's sarcophagus housed in the National Museum of Beirut is the earliest known example of alphabetical writing?
Did you know that the village of Denshaw in Greater Manchester achieved international notoriety when spoof information added to its Wikipedia entry was reported in national and international media?
Did you know that two US Presidents, Thomas Jefferson and William Henry Harrison, are responsible for the layout of the Old Jeffersonville Historic District?
Did you know that water privatization in Brazil began under Brazil's post-colonial Empire Pedro II of Brazil?
Did you know that when the YMCA of Berwick was incorporated in Pennsylvania in 1883, the majority of the organization's trustees were current executives of Jackson and Woodin Manufacturing Company?
Did you know that American diplomat Elbridge Durbrow was one of the 730 delegates who attended the Bretton Woods conference in July 1944?
Did you know that American pioneer John Bowman, granduncle of Kentucky University founder John Bryan Bowman, presided over the first county court held in Kentucky?
Did you know that Annette E. Brown was the first female commander of Navy Region Southeast of the United States Navy?
Did you know that BY Draconis, a multi-star system in the constellation Draco, includes a binary star system with an orbital period of only 5.98 days?
Did you know that Cryptosporidium hominis, an obligate parasite usually spread through fecal-contaminated drinking water, is responsible for a seasonal increase in cases of cryptosporidiosis in the Netherlands in autumn?
Did you know that Eliza Tibbets planted the first two navel orange trees in California?
Did you know that Filipe Nhussi, the current defence minister of Mozambique, was president of the top-division football club Clube Ferroviário de Nampula?
Did you know that Halemaʻumaʻu crater in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park erupted explosively on March 19 2008 for the first time since 1924?
Did you know that Lesotho is the only country in the world that lies entirely over 1,000 metres (3,300 ft) above mean sea level?
Did you know that Percy Hoskins was the only journalist working for a national British newspaper to defend suspected serial killer Dr. John Adams when he was arrested for murdering patients in 1956?
Did you know that Siegfried Kasche, the Third Reich's ambassador to Croatia from 1941 to 1945, was tried for "complicity in deportations and murders" by a Yugoslav court and executed in June 1947?
Did you know that St. Brendan's Church has been a location for two apocalypse movies: the Martian attack in 1953's War of the Worlds and the wedding at the end of Armageddon?
Did you know that as Kid Galahad, The Furze recorded "Stealin’ Beats" which featured on the PlayStation 2 game Dancing Stage MegaMix?
Did you know that despite Al Gore's efforts to appease Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. and Jesse Jackson, at the 2000 Democratic National Convention they agreed that endorsing Gore was like taking castor oil?
Did you know that legal experts consider the YouTube divorce video posted by British playwright Tricia Walsh-Smith be the first of its kind?
Did you know that modern historians still debate on whether or not the Ming Dynasty of China had sovereignty over Tibet?
Did you know that nineteenth-century Irish portrait painter Richard Rothwell is buried next to the Romantic poet John Keats in the Protestant cemetery in Rome?
Did you know that the Washington Irving sidewheeler, the biggest passenger-carrying riverboat ever built, sank after colliding with an oil barge in 1926?
Did you know that the cultures of the Western Mexico shaft tomb tradition not only considered dogs  to be soul guides for the dead, but a major source of protein as well?
Did you know that the first organochromium compound was described by German scientist Franz Hein in 1919?
Did you know that the recent Typhoon Neoguri was the earliest tropical cyclone on record to affect China?
Did you know that "4 Mots sur un piano", which deals with the theme of a romantic relationship between two men and one woman, was the fifth best-selling single of 2007 in France?
Did you know that Annie Armstrong, for whom the Southern Baptist Easter collection for domestic missions is named, resigned from the missionary organization she founded vowing never to serve the SBC again?
Did you know that Davison's Mill, Stelling Minnis, was the last windmill in Kent working commercially by wind when it closed in the autumn of 1970?
Did you know that Edgar Allan Poe's 1831 short story "Bon-Bon" features an amateur philosopher who meets a soul-eating devil?
Did you know that Enfield Old Park contained 207 fallow deer in April 1620, of which 73 were antlered males?
Did you know that Henry Wadsworth Longfellow never lived in Minneapolis's Longfellow House, a two-thirds scale model of his house built by an admirer of his work?
Did you know that Kevin O'Brien, an Independent Baptist minister in Lubbock, Texas, was among the founders of the fundamentalist Heartland Baptist Bible College in Oklahoma City?
Did you know that Kloster Wienhausen, a medieval convent in Germany, has the world's oldest surviving example of rivet eyeglasses?
Did you know that Magat Dam was at one time Southeast Asia's largest multipurpose dam?
Did you know that Major League Baseball catcher Ellie Rodríguez caught the fourth of Nolan Ryan's seven career no-hitters?
Did you know that Oregon's Boone Bridge is named for Daniel Boone's grandson, who operated the first river crossing at that location?
Did you know that Platt Fields Park in Manchester, England, was used as a country park for over 400 years before being converted for public use in 1908–1910?
Did you know that Sarre Windmill was the first windmill in Kent to have a steam engine installed as auxiliary power?
Did you know that William Godwin's philosophical work Political Justice (1793) argues that the existence of governments indicates that people are not yet ready to rely on their reason to regulate their conduct?
Did you know that architect John Desmond was able to design the acclaimed Louisiana State University Student Union building in Baton Rouge so that it could be built without disturbing a canopy of stately oak trees?
Did you know that at 15 years and 156 days, Albert Geldard became the youngest player to appear in The Football League in 1929?
Did you know that certain flies such as the Cayman crab fly Drosophila endobranchia live solely in and on land crabs?
Did you know that during the Shuliavka workers' uprising of 1905, groups of 150 armed men patrolled the streets of the Shuliavka neighborhood in Kiev to clean the area of any resistors to their movement?
Did you know that in May 1899, less than 18 months after he led the Australian cricket team to an Ashes victory over England in 1897–08, Australian Test cricket captain Harry Trott was committed to a psychiatric hospital?
Did you know that in the 2000 offseason Matt Lytle, a former American football quarterback, played for the Rhein Fire of NFL Europe who won World Bowl VIII?
Did you know that sprinter Jaysuma Saidy Ndure holds both the Gambian and Norwegian records in both the 100 and 200 metres?