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Did you know that Petrillo Music Shell was commissioned by Mayor of Chicago Anton Cermak to help lift the spirits of the citizenry with free concerts following the Great Depression?
Did you know that Richard Barre (died around 1202), a medieval English judge and clergyman, wrote a work on the Bible titled Compendium de veteri et novo testamento?
Did you know that Sevmash is the largest shipbuilding company in Russia?
Did you know that Spanish Republican guerillas held out in the mountains of the Maestrazgo in eastern Spain, against General Franco's forces until the mid 1950s?
Did you know that Temple I, in the Maya ruins of Tikal in Guatemala, is a 47-metre (154 ft) high funerary monument dedicated to king Jasaw Chan K'awiil I who died in AD 734?
Did you know that The Digby Conversion of Saint Paul, a Middle English miracle play of the late 15th century, tells the story of the conversion of Paul the Apostle?
Did you know that United Streetcar of Oregon is currently the only American company building modern streetcars?
Did you know that after finishing active duty with the United States Air Force, Kenneth Dickson worked as a law clerk for U.S. federal judge Howard Boyd Turrentine?
Did you know that as mayor of Murray, Utah, Dan Snarr was set to shave his nearly foot-long handlebar mustache for charity, but he was pressured by the American Mustache Institute to keep it?
Did you know that diplomat James R. Lilley is the only American to have served as head of diplomatic missions to both Taiwan and China?
Did you know that in his book Acquainted with the Night, Dewdney tells of a syndrome in which the victims, almost always Asian men, presumably die of terror while dreaming of something sitting on their chest?
Did you know that in the Siege of Diu in 1538 an Ottoman fleet equipped with 130 cannons attempted to eliminate the Portuguese from the harbour of Diu in India?
Did you know that one of the best sources on Yaqub Beg's rule in East Turkestan is Tārīkh-i amniyya (History of peace), written by Musa Sayrami?
Did you know that the Phineas and Ferb episode "Are You My Mummy?" originally aired as part of "Phineas and Ferb-urary," a special event which showed episodes of the series every night in February 2008 on Disney Channel?
Did you know that the single "My Girl" by Arashi currently holds the third largest first-week sales of 2009 in Japan?
Did you know that when Henry Heth became commander of the 45th Virginia Infantry, he felt frustrated by the illiteracy and lack of discipline of his men?
Did you know that writer Francis Wheen criticized Michael Jackson's book Dancing the Dream and thanked God that "none" of Jackson's fans could read?
Did you know that 7000 people were left stranded on Edurumandi Island after they refused to be evacuated during the 1990 Andhra Pradesh cyclone?
Did you know that Abraham Lincoln, one of many American politicians known for past use of cannabis, wrote that one of his "favorite things" was "smoking a pipe of sweet hemp"?
Did you know that Alice is a science fiction reimagining of the classic Alice's Adventures in Wonderland?
Did you know that Belleville, California, now a ghost town, was once a gold mining boomtown with a population of nearly 10,000, the largest town in Holcomb Valley in 1860?
Did you know that English singer and actor Walter H. Fisher created the role of the Defendant in Gilbert and Sullivan's 1875 opera Trial by Jury?
Did you know that Gausel was the location of a rich woman's grave from the Viking era, discovered in the 1880s?
Did you know that Hiroki Kikuta, despite composing music for over 20 video games and independent albums, has never received any formal music education?
Did you know that James Edwards, who ran for the Tennessee House of Representatives in 2002, is the current host of the The Political Cesspool at radio station WLRM?
Did you know that Mandazi, a form of fried bread that is popular in Eastern Africa, is often mixed with coconut milk and other ingredients, toppings, and dips to create different flavors?
Did you know that Nippon Professional Baseball's Climax Series, implemented in 2007, is the first and only postseason playoff system used by both the Central and Pacific Leagues?
Did you know that Siegfried Translateur,  a Viennese composer of dance music, died in a Nazi concentration camp?
Did you know that Vernon Burge was the first American enlisted man to be certified as a military aviator?
Did you know that a British 18-inch (460 mm) gun (example pictured) made naval history on 28 September 1918 as it fired the heaviest shell from the biggest gun at the longest range in combat to date?
Did you know that once Li Yingshi, a decorated veteran of the Korean War of 1592–1598, converted to Catholicism, it took him and two Jesuits three days to find and burn all the prohibited books in his library?
Did you know that the Canadian government has approved InterPlane Skyboy as an Advanced Ultra-Light Aeroplane (AULA)?
Did you know that the Canterbury Astrolabe Quadrant discovered in 2005 is the only known British-made medieval astrolabe?
Did you know that the Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate, a precursor of the modern state of Lebanon, was created in the aftermath of the 1860 massacre where thousands of Christians were killed by the Druze?
Did you know that the Nilgiri Wildlife and Environment Association, established in 1877, was the first wildlife conservation organisation in India?
Did you know that the South Park episode "Dances with Smurfs" calls out the similarities of the upcoming film Avatar to the 1990 film Dances with Wolves?
Did you know that the Stavanger Airport, Forus in Norway was constructed at the location of the former lake Stokkavatnet?
Did you know that the Water Street Historic District in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, includes the canal  lock for which the city was named?
Did you know that the career of British actress Lottie Venne spanned five decades?
Did you know that the house now called Hill Bark was built as Bidston Court on Bidston Hill, Birkenhead, Merseyside, England, in 1891, but was demolished and rebuilt on its present site and renamed in 1928–31?
Did you know that the monitor HMS Gorgon (1914) fired the last shots of World War I by the Royal Navy against German coastal batteries in Belgium on 15 October 1918?
Did you know that the round fantail stingray has recently colonized the Mediterranean Sea, but not as a Lessepsian migrant?
Did you know that when U2 recorded their 1991 song "Ultraviolet (Light My Way)" (life performance pictured), they debated Bono's repeated use of a cliché lyric "baby"?
Did you know that "Charlie Bit My Finger" is the most viewed video of all time on YouTube, with over 130 million hits?
Did you know that Argentine spy Bill Gaede was so successful in his clandestine operation of sending technical information from AMD to Cuban representatives that he was invited to meet Fidel Castro?
Did you know that Charles Darwin was a friend of his local vicar, the Reverend John Brodie-Innes?
Did you know that Chinese citizen Feng Zhenghu, now stranded in Tokyo Narita Airport, is likened to the Tom Hanks character in "The Terminal"?
Did you know that Fritz Shiverick, known as "a scoring machine", served in 1919 as Cornell's quarterback, punter, drop kicker, kickoff returner and play-caller on both offense and defense?
Did you know that Glenn James is the only Indigenous Australian to umpire top grade Australian rules football?
Did you know that Mark Baker made his Broadway debut in the original production of Via Galactica, which flopped for a loss of nearly $1 million?
Did you know that Mithaecus's recipe for the burrowing fish Cepola macrophthalma is the oldest recorded recipe?
Did you know that Northwestern's Max Morris was a consensus All-American in both basketball and football, played both sports professionally, and twice led the Big Ten in scoring?
Did you know that RMS Queen Elizabeth and RMS Queen Mary were fitted with stabilisers after the improvement in passenger comfort and reduction in rolling that was seen on RMS Media?
Did you know that Robert Fortune introduced the Oval Kumquat (Fortunella margarita) into London in 1846 from an expedition to China?
Did you know that South Korean fashion model Daul Kim was also a keen painter and had exhibited her works at a solo exhibition in Seoul?
Did you know that St. Mary's Church, South Stoneham is one of the two remaining medieval churches in the city of Southampton, England, with parts of the building dating from the 12th century?
Did you know that William T. Ryder was the first American paratrooper?
Did you know that a character in the 1937 Tamil film Balayogini, one of the first children's films of South India, was hailed as the "Shirley Temple of India"?
Did you know that after delivering a rousing speech during the Battle of Arnhem, Richard Lonsdale repeated it a year later in the film Theirs is the Glory?
Did you know that in the past, many courts ruled that homosexuals couldn't apply for American citizenship?
Did you know that one of those killed in the mass murders in Piaśnica, Sister Alicja Kotowska, was beatified together with 107 other victims of Nazi terror in 1999 by Pope John Paul II?
Did you know that reports of "lizards with two tails" on Fernando de Noronha in the Atlantic Ocean may have been based on Trachylepis atlantica?
Did you know that some people once moved to the now abandoned city of  Pioneer, Nevada, with their houses?
Did you know that the Gnomon of Saint-Sulpice was claimed to be "a pagan astronomical instrument" and "an ancient sundial" in Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code?
Did you know that the Old Bazaar, one of the oldest and largest in the Balkans, has been Skopje's centre for trade and commerce since at least the 12 century?
Did you know that the South Park episode "Pee" features a waterpark that becomes engulfed in tsunamis of urine, as a parody of the disaster film 2012?
Did you know that the library of the Flyfishers' Club has been described as one of the finest angling collections in Europe?
Did you know that the proposed Lithuanian–Polish–Ukrainian Brigade reflects attempts by the Polish government to tie Ukraine more closely with the West?
Did you know that the prototype of the Polikarpov VIT-2 was first flown on 11 May 1938 by the famous pilot Valery Chkalov?
Did you know that , in 1930, Ralph Royce flew aircraft in such severe cold weather operations that the Mackay Trophy was awarded to him?
Did you know that Abdul Ghaffar Khan, a colleague of Mahatma Gandhi, was hailed as an example of pacifism in Islam for his leadership of non-violent resistance?
Did you know that Charles Kingsley's Great Hippocampus Question satirised debate on ape origins following Charles Darwin's publication of On the Origin of Species (satirical image pictured) ?
Did you know that Eddie Bayers replaced his mentor, the late Larrie Londin, as the drummer for The Notorious Cherry Bombs?
Did you know that J.D. Morgan led UCLA to at least 6 NCAA championships as tennis coach and 30 NCAA championships, including 10 men's basketball titles, as athletic director?
Did you know that Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth, made famous for her appearance on the American reality television show The Apprentice, returned as a candidate for the seventh season of the show?
Did you know that Peter L. Nissen, CEO of Widerøe from 1981 to 1988, has called the Widerøe Flight disaster of 1982 "unsolved", even though commissions have reached their conclusions?
Did you know that Prince Christian of Denmark was hailed as heir to the King of Denmark in 1610, but died in 1647 without having succeeded to the throne?
Did you know that René Menzies, at one time Charles de Gaulle's chauffeur, was a record-breaking long-distance cyclist who rode 62,785 miles the year he reached his 63rd birthday?
Did you know that South Africa women cricketers played their first Test match at St George's Park, the same location as the country's men's team played their first match?
Did you know that Vanderbilt's 130-pound quarterback Irby "Rabbit" Curry, an elusive runner who "only needed the suspicion of an opening to wriggle through," was killed in aerial combat in 1918?
Did you know that according to local tradition on Coll, the now-ruinous dun of Dùn an Achaidh was once the fortress of the son of a Norse king named Olaf?
Did you know that an extinct dog breed, the Alpine Spaniel, was the predecessor to the St. Bernard?
Did you know that chocolate liqueurs have been produced from at least the 18th century?
Did you know that in 1831 young Charles Darwin met William Snow Harris ("Thunder-and-Lightning Harris") whose experimental lightning conductor had just been fitted to HMS Beagle?
Did you know that the Cheapside Street Whisky Bond Fire in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1960 was (and remains) the worst peace time loss of life for the United Kingdom fire services?
Did you know that the Duke University athletics records on the 1000 and 1500 meters, set between 1971 and 1973 by the US Olympian Bob Wheeler, still stand?
Did you know that the Simpsons episode "The Devil Wears Nada", in which Marge poses for racy photographs in a calendar, aired soon after she appeared nude on the cover of Playboy?
Did you know that there are two types of Russkiy Toy, a Russian breed of dog, which are long haired and smooth haired?
Did you know that Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights secretary Lola Hendricks applied personally to public safety commissioner Bull Connor for permission to demonstrate in Birmingham, Alabama, during the 1963 Birmingham Campaign?
Did you know that American band Person L's use of a diverse mix of sounds and genres on their record The Positives, has been compared to the style used by Jawbox and Fugazi?
Did you know that American sports journalist William T. Porter  founded of one of the earliest sports newspapers in the United States, The Spirit of the Times?
Did you know that Biomphalaria freshwater snails such as Biomphalaria glabrata and Biomphalaria tenagophila transfer a parasitic disease that infects 83 million people?
Did you know that German journalist Heribert Prantl worked as both a judge and a public prosecutor before becoming the head of the domestic policy department of the Süddeutsche Zeitung?
Did you know that Gudmund Harlem, father of former Director-General of the World Health Organization Gro Harlem Brundtland, was a notable politician and physician in his own right?
Did you know that Helge Skappel was among the pioneers of aviation in Norway, and together with Viggo Widerøe he wrote a book on the pioneer days?
Did you know that NCAA tennis coach Dick Gould was named "Coach of the Decade" for both the 1980s and 1990s and coached 50 All-Americans, including John McEnroe and the Bryan Brothers?
Did you know that Nicole Fox, who won first place in the reality show America's Next Top Model in 2009, is nicknamed "Bloody Eyeball"?
Did you know that Plains Cree-Blackfoot artist and author Gerald McMaster says Hopalong Cassidy and the Lone Ranger were inspirations for his art?
Did you know that Tuskegee University gives up its chance for the NCAA Division II National Football Championship each year to be able to play in the Turkey Day Classic?
Did you know that a purge of senior ranks in 1946 left Air Vice Marshal George Mackinolty as one of only two officers in the Royal Australian Air Force who had seen service in both world wars?
Did you know that after the heavy American casualties over the oil refineries of Ploieşti in Operation Tidal Wave, General Gordon P. Saville called it "ridiculous and suicidal"?
Did you know that before beginning a career in animation, Jeff "Swampy" Marsh worked as a vice president of sales and marketing for a computer company, where he "freaked out" and decided to quit?
Did you know that during World War II, Paul C. Donnelly helped develop the U.S. Navy's Bat, the first U.S. "smart bomb", and later was a senior NASA manager during the Apollo program?
Did you know that female sterilization is considered the most prevalent birth-control method in India?
Did you know that goalkeeper Barrie Delf only made one appearance in The Football League for Southend United, having previously played as an amateur?
Did you know that in 1922, Henry Pellew, an American citizen, inherited the title of Viscount Exmouth, created for his grandfather who fought for the British during the American War of Independence?
Did you know that the  Aleutian Shield Fern, an endangered species found only on the Aleutian Island, Adak Island, is one of the  least known of the world's ferns?
Did you know that the Polish Art Nouveau sculptor Konstanty Laszczka produced symbolic bronze statues of female nudes overwhelmed with sadness?
Did you know that the Puławy Legion of the Imperial Russian Army, supported by National Democrats, was formed to counteract the Polish Legions of the Austro–Hungarian Army, an initiative of Piłsudski?
Did you know that the Soviet Mikoyan-Gurevich DIS prototype of the early 1940s had an electrically operated variable-incidence horizontal stabilizer?
Did you know that the pre-WWII mayor of Bergen, Asbjørn Stensaker, initially remained in his position under Nazi German rule to limit nazification, but the Nazis prevented his stepping down in 1941?
Did you know that the range of buildings with listed status in Worthing, West Sussex, includes a lamp-post, a dovecote and a sculpture of four male heads?
Did you know that the unusual fully-plastered attic on the D&H Canal Co. office near Lackawaxen, Pennsylvania, may be due to use as a dormitory for laborers during high-maintenance seasons on the canal?
Did you know that transcranial alternating current stimulation, a method of applying alternating current above the scalp, can entrain brain waves that induce phosphenes and slow reaction times?
Did you know that American football guard Justin Boren cited family values as the reason for transferring from the University of Michigan to its arch rival, The Ohio State University?
Did you know that John Alario, the longest-serving member of the Louisiana State Legislature whose tenure began in 1972, is currently a freshman member of the state Senate?
Did you know that Oregon doctor Augustus C. Kinney lived in Astoria, but died in Oakland, California, and was buried in Salem, Oregon?
Did you know that Oregon pioneer Robert Crouch Kinney read law under Serranus Clinton Hastings, but never practiced law?
Did you know that Quan Thanh Temple (principal gate pictured), a Taoist temple in Hanoi, was once wrongly named as a Buddhist pagoda by the French?
Did you know that Trần Minh Tông ceded the throne to his five-year-old son Trần Dụ Tông because he considered the eldest prince too extravagant for the position of Đại Việt Emperor?
Did you know that Udawalawe National Park is the third most visited park in Sri Lanka?
Did you know that a mechanical filter of phonograph parts was designed by Edward Norton as a Butterworth filter prior to Stephen Butterworth publishing his electronic design?
Did you know that although British Prime Minister Edward Heath announced in 1972 that hooding was illegal, British soldiers were engaging in the practice in the Iraq War?
Did you know that although the Spanish introduced barley-based beer in Mexico, various Mesoamerican cultures had a corn-based fermented drink which is still made today?
Did you know that among the many stories about the origins of the name Vin Santo (or "holy wine"; pictured), is the legend that a Tuscan friar used the wine left over from Mass to miraculously cure the sick?
Did you know that former Louisiana State Senator Lynn Dean, a Republican, led the move in 2003 to repeal his state's anti-sodomy law?
Did you know that former Louisiana legislative auditor Steve Theriot investigated a police-operated toy charity which uncovered various improprieties at Mandeville City Hall?
Did you know that less than two years after Julia Goss thought she failed her audition, she became the principal soprano of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company?
Did you know that ordinary salt may be blessed by Catholic priests and used as a protective sacramental?
Did you know that some garter snakes engage in kleptothermy  by creating fake female pheromones that cause other males to cover them in attempted mating letting them steal their warmth?
Did you know that the 1975 musical The Black Mikado was based on Gilbert and Sullivan's 1885 opera The Mikado?
Did you know that the Lowell Creek Diversion Tunnel in Seward, Alaska, carries Lowell Creek 2,068 feet (630 m) through a mountain?
Did you know that the citizens of Morella, Spain, hold a sexennial nine-day celebration to commemorate their deliverance from the plague by the Virgin of Vallivana?
Did you know that the day after the death of businessman Fairfax Harrison,  The New York Times accidentally ran the wrong picture with his obituary?
Did you know that the historian of the American West Herbert H. Lang researched a study of the role of Fort Worth, Texas, in the origins of the modern helium industry?
Did you know that American football center J. T. White played for NCAA national champions with both the 1947 Michigan Wolverines football team and the 1942 Ohio State Buckeyes football team?
Did you know that American gambler Lottie Deno was one of Texas' most famous poker players in the late 1800s?
Did you know that Captain Richard Bowen, commanding the 32-gun HMS Terpsichore, attacked the largest warship in the world at the time, the 136-gun Santísima Trinidad?
Did you know that HMS Aid was part of Sir Francis Drake's fleet to meet the Spanish Armada at Plymouth?
Did you know that Kursha Monastery is the largest Buddhist monastery in the Zanskar region of eastern Jammu and Kashmir, India?
Did you know that Nunez Community College in Chalmette, Louisiana, is named for the late wife of former Louisiana State Senate President Samuel B. Nunez, Jr.?
Did you know that Otto Joachim Løvenskiold rejected offers to become both Minister of Justice and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Norway?
Did you know that Ramón de la Sagra founded the world's first anarchist journal El Porvenir?
Did you know that Trinidad has more bat species than any other island in the Caribbean?
Did you know that after his father committed suicide, Harry Reid introduced a resolution to the United States Senate which led to the creation of the National Survivors of Suicide Day?
Did you know that archaeologist Anton Wilhelm Brøgger and his sons Waldemar and Niels were imprisoned in Grini concentration camp during World War II?
Did you know that at Modern Toilet restaurants, the chairs are made out of toilets, dishes are served on plastic miniature toilet bowls, and drinks come in miniature urinals?
Did you know that because of its total lack of anti-tank guns, the Norwegian Army was forced to employ Model 1901 field guns against German Panzers during the 1940 Norwegian Campaign?
Did you know that following the German invasion of Norway, General Fleischer and County Governor Hans Gabrielsen assumed all military and civilian power in Northern Norway, declaring the region a theatre of war?
Did you know that in his mid-career, the American blues and boogie-woogie pianist, Big Joe Duskin, did not touch a keyboard for sixteen years as a promise to his father who thought he played the devil's music?
Did you know that in the Siege of Esztergom (1543), the Ottoman Emperor Suleiman captured the Hungarian city of Esztergom with the support of French artillery?
Did you know that nematode Angiostrongylus vasorum lives in the hearts of dogs?
Did you know that research supported by the Sabin Vaccine Institute to treat and prevent the neglected disease of hookworm infection includes the development of hookworm vaccines?
Did you know that the Duchy of Belz was passed as a dowry by Władysław Jagiełło, king of Poland to Siemowit IV, Duke of Masovia, upon Siemowit's marriage to Władysław's sister, Alexandra?
Did you know that the Israeli ground-based missile-defense radar EL/M-2080 Green Pine (diagram pictured) operates in search, detection, tracking, and missile guidance modes simultaneously?
Did you know that the Italian monitor Faà di Bruno was powered by two engines from discarded torpedo boats?
Did you know that the Nefertiti bust was reinstated in Neues Museum in 2009 after 70 years away, including a period in a salt mine in World War II?