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Did you know that at the age of 70, former English Football League and international soccer referee Pat Partridge took over as linesman in a non-league match he was watching, after the original linesman took over from the injured referee?
Did you know that in the Indian Gaarudi Gombe ceremonial dance, dancers are required to wear full-body doll-suits made of bamboo sticks?
Did you know that many abandoned flour mills in Mills District, Minneapolis have been converted to museums, parks, theaters, and condominiums?
Did you know that the 200 km/h maximum speed of the Munich-Nuremberg Express makes it the only regional train in Germany fast enough to not impede ICE traffic?
Did you know that the 2800 verses of the Mohanatarangini make it the longest work by Kanaka Dasa, a 16th century saint and one of the foremost names in Kannada literature?
Did you know that the Defense Production Act played a vital role in the establishment of the American domestic aluminum and titanium processing industries in the 1950s?
Did you know that the Gaussian Network Model has a wide range of applications from enzymes composed of a single domain, to large macromolecular assemblies, such as ribosomes and viral capsids?
Did you know that the Hukou F-5F crash in May 2007 involved an F-5/F jet fighter hitting a military base in Taiwan while simulating a low attack, killing four people?
Did you know that the Imperial Russian statesman and  sociologist Paul von Lilienfeld laid out his theories on organicism when he served as the governor of Courland?
Did you know that the ethnically-fueled 1989 Sukhumi riots in the Soviet Union's Abkhaz ASSR left eighteen dead and almost 450 injured?
Did you know that when Captain Linda Garcia Cubero graduated from the United States Air Force Academy in 1980, she was the first Latina to graduate from any U.S. military service academy?
Did you know that American thoroughbred race horse Little Current received the 1974 Eclipse Award for Outstanding 3-Year-Old Male Horse despite having his racing career ended mid-season by a bone chip in his leg?
Did you know that Bertie Smalls, considered by many as Britain's first supergrass, avoided jail by informing on his partners-in-crime, despite having led them in an armed bank robbery?
Did you know that Georgian theatre director Kote Marjanishvili's use of puppetry in his adaptation of Oedipus Rex was inspired by a similar set-up in Edward Gordon Craig's 1911 adaptation of Hamlet?
Did you know that Isaac Ironside, a politician in Sheffield, attempted to implement ideas originating from Robert Owen and from Toulmin Smith's localist theories?
Did you know that John Constable did full-size oil sketches before starting all his largest "six-footer" paintings?
Did you know that Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard created a belief system regarding sexual activity?
Did you know that chief justice Frederick Richard Jordan once decided that the government of New South Wales had "no business" refusing a water irrigation licence just because the applicant was Italian?
Did you know that classification of the Yellow-crowned Amazon is so problematic that some authorities divide it into three separate species?
Did you know that from 1950 to 1953, the Office of Defense Mobilization was one of the most powerful agencies in the U.S., controlling almost every facet of the economy?
Did you know that some of the disused railway stations between Plymouth in Devon and Penzance in Cornwall, England, were closed during the "Beeching Axe" in the 1960s?
Did you know that the Tibetan Tree of physiology thangka describes a detailed account of anatomical knowledge gained through ritual human dissection?
Did you know that the non-fiction book All Gods Children was cited by a report of the American Psychiatric Association, to describe coercive persuasion?
Did you know that Beechy, Saskatchewan, despite only having a population of 243, is home to former provincial Leader of the Opposition and Saskatchewan Party founder Elwin Hermanson?
Did you know that Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia was exiled for life, after marrying a commoner of black ancestry?
Did you know that John Vesey, a 16th-century bishop of Exeter, had a fordkeeper's cottage built along Plants Brook to help provide security for travelers on the Wylde Green Road?
Did you know that Pokey Allen, former head coach of the Portland State Vikings football team, appeared in television commercials threatening to have himself shot out of a cannon into the backyards of anyone not buying season tickets?
Did you know that Shinozaki Mamoru was credited as the "Japanese Schindler" for saving thousands of Chinese and Eurasians during the Japanese Occupation of Singapore?
Did you know that Swindon's Link Centre contains the tallest climbing wall in Wiltshire?
Did you know that after an ultimatum by the Chicago White Stockings to pull his African American players from the active roster, baseball manager Charlie Morton put Moses Fleetwood Walker back on despite having given him time off for injuries?
Did you know that an endoclip (pictured, right) is used to close two mucosal surfaces in the gastrointestinal tract without the need for surgery and suturing?
Did you know that on average, laying the track leading up to the final spike of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway cost $112,000 a mile?
Did you know that the 1942 animated short film Japoteurs features a scene similar to the one in Superman Returns in which Superman catches an airplane in mid-air?
Did you know that the Center Region of Argentina produces 90% of the country's vegetable oil?
Did you know that the Defense Production Administration, a branch of the U.S. government set up to oversee defense production during wartime mobilization, was abolished after only two years?
Did you know that the Kraków szopka is a unique Polish Christmas tradition that portrays artistic interpretations of buildings of Kraków along nativity scenes?
Did you know that the Romanian poet Mehmet Niyazi, a major figure in Crimean Tatar literature, was expelled from Crimea three times during his lifetime?
Did you know that the biggest walk-through aviary in India is located on the shore of the Karanji Lake in Mysore?
Did you know that the story of Kamsa and Bar Kamsa is the most famous Jewish legend regarding the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem?
Did you know that 13 rioters convicted by a jury of their peers were later pardoned for their actions in the Muncy Abolition Riot of 1842?
Did you know that BBC radio presenter Margaret Hubble presented Woman's Hour alongside Marjorie Anderson and Jean Metcalfe in the 1950s?
Did you know that British art historian Sir Oliver Nicholas Millar GCVO served in the Royal Household  for 41 years, becoming the first Director of the Royal Collection in 1987?
Did you know that Crotalus tigris has the highest toxicity of venoms among rattlesnakes, even though it has a low venom yield?
Did you know that German-born Richard Lieber started the trend of American state parks having inns and charging fees for using the parks, so that citizens would appreciate them more?
Did you know that Irish writer and trade unionist Brian Behan once took part in a swearing match at the British Museum?
Did you know that Mary Brunner, a member of the "Manson family", was incarcerated after a shootout with police at a robbery?
Did you know that Robert S. Vance was the third American federal judge to be assassinated as the result of his judicial service?
Did you know that Russian photography pioneer Karl Bulla left more than 200,000 glass negatives that are now in the public domain?
Did you know that Sammy Ellis won 22 games and made the All-Star team for the Cincinnati Reds in 1965 despite allowing the most Earned Runs in the league?
Did you know that Saskatchewan Highway 58 travels the Missouri Coteau to an important shore bird site on Canada's second largest saline lake?
Did you know that Superman stops a mad scientist and his army of robots in the 1941 animated short film The Mechanical Monsters?
Did you know that at least 36 vases painted by the Athenian Meidias Painter are still in existence more than 2,400 years after they were created?
Did you know that bread and beer were the two basic staples of Ancient Egyptian cuisine?
Did you know that major portions of Japanese writer Shōko Ieda's 1991 book Yellow Cab, about the eponymous sexual stereotype of Japanese women, were later denounced as "fraudulent" by her research assistant?
Did you know that one of the finest naturalistic Late Antique ivory diptychs was found in a well at the abbey of Montier-en-Der, originally called Puteolus ("little well")?
Did you know that over four hundred 4000-year-old carved stone balls have been uncovered in archaeological digs in Scotland?
Did you know that the 1912 comic strip Polly and Her Pals by Cliff Sterrett was the first American strip to have a female protagonist?
Did you know that the Jesus Army, a British Christian outreach organisation, has been condemned by the Cult Information Centre, another British charity?
Did you know that the Judaic legal fiction of Prozbul protects both the poor and wealthy from the effects of the Sabbatical Year?
Did you know that the New York Giants of the NFL won the first Super Bowl in their franchise history during their 1986 season?
Did you know that the Sauk Rapids Tornado of 1886 changed the economic structure of central Minnesota after it destroyed at least 109 commercial or public buildings in Sauk Rapids (damage pictured)?
Did you know that the first computer simulations of galaxy mergers were conducted by Alar Toomre in the 1970s?
Did you know that the tallest wooden sculpture of Bodhisattva in the world is housed in Puning Temple of China?
Did you know that unemployment protection in Italy is guaranteed by Italy's constitution?
Did you know that 5-HT3 antagonists, effective for treating the nausea and vomiting due to chemotherapy, have no effect on motion sickness?
Did you know that Betty Roberts was the first woman to serve on Oregon's Supreme Court?
Did you know that British architect Sir Colin Wilson, known for designing the new British Library near St Pancras station, donated his collection of modern art to the Pallant House Gallery in Chichester?
Did you know that Californian politician Lou Papan received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor in 1996?
Did you know that Colombian National Police Sub-Intendant John Frank Pinchao was kidnapped by the FARC guerrillas for almost 9 years, until finally escaping in 2007?
Did you know that John J. Clague won the Logan Medal, the highest award of the Geological Association of Canada, in 2007?
Did you know that Romulus Whitaker won the Whitley Award for establishing a rainforest research station at Agumbe, India to conserve King Cobras?
Did you know that Swearing on the Horns is a Highgate pub tradition that dates back to the 1600s?
Did you know that The Geysers, a geothermal power field located north of San Francisco, California,  (power plant pictured) is the largest geothermal development in the world?
Did you know that Vortex I, which took place in Oregon in 1970, remains the only state-sponsored rock festival in United States history?
Did you know that William Moore was the earliest settler of Skagway, the famous gold rush town in the Klondike Gold Rush?
Did you know that a 1973 book on Prem Rawat, Who Is Guru Maharaj Ji?, featured an introduction by American anti-Vietnam War activist Rennie Davis?
Did you know that alpine skier Jean Saubert won one-third of all medals earned by the entire United States Olympic team at the 1964 Winter Olympics?
Did you know that although it was not particularly well-known  in Bulgaria until the late 19th century, today Bulgarian beer is one of the country's most popular alcoholic beverages?
Did you know that in the Roman Empire, ten-year celebrations called "decennalia" originated after Augustus refused the lifetime supremacy offered to him?
Did you know that many of the earliest known copies of the New Testament are remains of papyrus books from Oxyrhynchus in Egypt (papyrus pictured)?
Did you know that nutritionist-turned-molecular biologist Thomas H. Jukes was one of the few scientists ever to have a regular column in the journal Nature?
Did you know that the Brothers Grimm were amongst the Göttingen Seven, university teachers who protested changes to the constitution of the Kingdom of Hanover in 1837?
Did you know that the Duke of Wellington had not seen Kitty Pakenham for ten years when he proposed marriage to her in 1806?
Did you know that the European fascist alliance New European Order split in 1955 due to a dispute over the issue of whether South Tyrol should be Italian or Austrian?
Did you know that the Green Knight of medieval literature is thought by many scholars to represent the Devil due to its strange colour?
Did you know that the House of Gediminas ruled Lithuania from 1285 to 1572?
Did you know that the Northeastern United States was struck by a major tornado outbreak on July 10, 1989?
Did you know that the Rusty-barred Owl is one of the only two members of the Strix genus of birds to be found in South America?
Did you know that the Swedish narrow-gauge railroad Upsala-Lenna Jernväg includes the biggest remaining steam locomotive built for 891 mm rail gauge?
Did you know that the autobiography of Italian sculptor Raffaello da Montelupo contains the only known contemporary reference to Michelangelo's natural left-handedness?
Did you know that the fifth-century Syriac Curetonian Gospels found in Egypt represent a considerably older, independent textual tradition of the four gospels?
Did you know that the satirical magazine The Georgetown Heckler changed its name from The Georgetown Lampoon after being threatened with a lawsuit by the Harvard Lampoon?
Did you know that when the RMS Titanic was built in Belfast in 1912, the largest shipyard in the world was in Belfast?
Did you know that British Pre-Raphaelite painter Solomon Joseph Solomon (artist of the picture) was one of the few Jewish painters of his time to become a member of the Royal Academy?
Did you know that Conor McPherson's The Weir was performed on Broadway in 1998, less than a year after its original opening at The Royal Court Theatre in London?
Did you know that Horabagrus brachysoma, an endangered species of the genus Horabagrus, has been considered a potential flagship species for media attention to provide a focus for wildlife conservation of inland biodiversity?
Did you know that Job Charnock landed at Sutanuti on 24 August, 1690 with the objective of establishing the settlement, which is now Calcutta?
Did you know that Judge Henry F. Werker's rejection of unfair labor practice charges against baseball owners preceded the two-month 1981 Major League Baseball strike, even though his opinion ended by urging the parties to "PLAY BALL"?
Did you know that Lieutenant Peter Bover, whose shooting of a Royal Navy sailor sparked the Nore mutiny of 1797, was exonerated by the mutineers and cheered on returning to his ship?
Did you know that Otto van Veen was Peter Paul Rubens' first master, but is now best known for his emblem books?
Did you know that Pieter Brueghel the Elder's painting, Netherlandish Proverbs, features depictions of around 100 common sayings of the 16th century?
Did you know that Randy Gumpert first pitched for the New York Yankees in 1946, even though it had been eight years since he was on a major league roster?
Did you know that Władysław Orkan, a Podhale Polish writer and poet of the Young Poland movement, never passed his matura exams?
Did you know that consumer protection law in the United Kingdom incorporates directives from the European Union?
Did you know that modern nursing was founded by Florence Nightingale at the Selimiye Barracks in Istanbul, Turkey during the Crimean War (1854-1856)?
Did you know that the 18th century Bow porcelain factory in the district of Bow, London was a short-lived rival of the Chelsea porcelain factory in making the earliest soft-paste porcelain in Great Britain?
Did you know that the Gideon H. Pond House was built by Gideon Pond, who came to Minnesota to teach farming and Christianity to the Native Americans?
Did you know that the Kipawa River in Quebec, Canada, is being considered for hydroelectric development which would completely divert it?
Did you know that the Turkish tanbur is one of the four musical instruments that make up Turkish classical music's basic quartet?
Did you know that the first Azerbaijani language newspaper, Akinchi was founded in 1875 by Hasan bey Zardabi?
Did you know that the longest river on the island of New Guinea, the Sepik, was named the Kaiserin Augusta by German explorers in 1884, after the German Empress of the day?
Did you know that the name of the Cheers episode The Gift of the Woodi is a reference to O. Henry's short story The Gift of the Magi?
Did you know that the non-fiction book The Challenge of the Cults and New Religions analyzes cults from an evangelical Christian perspective?
Did you know that the summer 1944 Lublin-Brest Offensive of Soviet Army succeeded in bringing the Soviets to the vicinity of Warsaw, where the Warsaw Uprising began?
Did you know that two separate newspapers called the Western Mail have been published in Perth, Western Australia, the first from 1885 to 1955 and the second from 1980 to 1988?
Did you know that Bristol Byzantine was an architectural style used for industrial buildings in Bristol between 1850 and 1880?
Did you know that Gustavus Blin Wright, a pioneer road builder and entrepreneur in British Columbia, Canada, built the 127-mile-long Old Cariboo Road in 1862–3?
Did you know that Ivan Bogorov, who published the first Bulgarian newspaper in 1846 in Leipzig, was also an ardent supporter of Bulgarian linguistic purism and was known for his often amusing neologisms?
Did you know that Simon de Montfort was killed and had his testicles cut off at the Battle of Evesham?
Did you know that West Indies cricketer Sir Harold Austin, who captained the team twice on tours to England, later became the Speaker in the Barbados House of Assembly?
Did you know that opponents of Cameroon's first president, Ahmadou Ahidjo, danced to show their displeasure (Cameroonian dancers pictured)?
Did you know that the "Guild of Saint Luke" was the usual name for the painters' guild in cities of the Low Countries?
Did you know that the 14th century Chinese military treatise of the Huo Long Jing edited by Jiao Yu described the use of cast iron grenades, firearms, fire lance flamethrowers, cannons, land mines, naval mines, rocket launchers, and winged rockets?
Did you know that the Tooting impact crater on Mars was named after the London suburb of the same name because the discoverer "thought [his] mum and brother would get a kick out of having their home town paired with a land form on Mars"?
Did you know that the cruiseferry M/S Nordlandia (originally M/S Olau Hollandia) was built to be NATO-compatible, so that she could easily be converted to a troopship?
Did you know that the minesweeper USS Threat was transferred to the government of Mexico after being decommissioned by the US Navy and renamed the Francisco Zarco?
Did you know that the ocean liner SS Paris, built in 1913, reached such heights of luxury and service that sea gulls purportedly followed it more than any other ship, hoping to feast on scraps of haute cuisine that were thrown overboard?
Did you know that there are fifteen distinct police agencies enforcing law in Bosnia and Herzegovina?
Did you know that Eddie Ingram played for the Irish cricket team for 25 years, after making his debut at the age of 17?
Did you know that Gaius Pontius, the Samnite general and victor at the Battle of the Caudine Forks, is believed to be an ancestor of the Roman governor of Judea Pontius Pilate?
Did you know that Ira Losco, who led Malta to a second place finish in the 2002 Eurovision Song Contest, sang the official anthem at the opening ceremonies of the 2003 Games of the Small States of Europe?
Did you know that Kirk o' Field in Edinburgh was the location of one of the world's great unsolved historical mysteries, the murder of Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary Queen of Scots, in 1567?
Did you know that Manuel Gamio conducted the first scientific excavations in the Valley of Mexico?
Did you know that Marshal Soult's last offensive against the Duke of Wellington's forces in the Peninsular War was lost before a single red coat could join the battle?
Did you know that Vädersolstavlan is the oldest known painting of Stockholm?
Did you know that Western Ganga literature included Kannada poetry and prose written by royalty, on topics ranging from religion to elephant management?
Did you know that almost 60% of Belfast's adult population regularly participate in one or more sports?
Did you know that although people from the Isle of Man are British citizens, they do not have freedom of movement or employment throughout the European Union?
Did you know that in 2002 Nicaragua had 15 times fewer banks than its Central American counterparts with only six compared to the regional average of 107 per country?
Did you know that police officers in Croatia are only allowed to use their guns if there is a threat to their life or the lives of other people, or to prevent a crime from being committed for which the maximum prison sentence is five years or more?
Did you know that ten days before the ratification of the Peace of Szeged, Vladislaus, King of Hungary, swore an oath which invalidated it and all future treaties with the Ottoman Empire?
Did you know that the Sabine Free State, a border area between Spanish Texas and American Louisiana but administered by neither for 15 years in the early 19th century, attracted every kind of outlaw known from both sides, as well as settlers, adventurers and political refugees?
Did you know that the San Salvador was a galleon of the Spanish Armada whose capture supplied the English with a significant proportion of the gunpowder that they used in the campaign?
Did you know that the Scientology Task Force of Hamburg, Germany reported on what it called brainwashing in Scientology's Rehabilitation Project Force?
Did you know that the Short Knuckleduster gull-winged flying boat never entered military service, but data from its handling and engine steam-cooling aided the design of Short's Empire and Sunderland aircraft?
Did you know that the Youth Olympic Games are planned to teach Olympic values to teenage athletes?
Did you know that the founder of the Caucasus branch of the Qadiriyyah Tariqah, Kunta-haji is often referred as the "Chechen Gandhi" because of his doctrine of nonviolence?
Did you know that the time traveling premise featured in the Chrono series of video games was inspired by such television programs as The Time Tunnel?
Did you know that trade unions in Argentina have traditionally played a strong role in the politics of the nation, with approximately 40% of workers in the formal economy being unionized?
Did you know that Byzantines were skilled at using diplomacy as a weapon of war?
Did you know that Frank Lloyd Wright's Plan for Greater Baghdad included a 300-foot gilded statue of Harun al-Rashid?
Did you know that Genlisea margaretae, a carnivorous plant native to Southeast Africa, has the smallest recorded flowering plant genome?
Did you know that Jack Fingleton, a journalist who was press secretary to former Prime Minister of Australia Billy Hughes, represented Australia in Test cricket?
Did you know that Jeremiah Arkham, the sadistic head of Arkham Asylum in the Batman universe of DC Comics, held Batman captive in his comic book debut?
Did you know that Tran Kim Tuyen, the intelligence chief of South Vietnam's Ngo Dinh Diem was referred to as "Vietnam's Goebbels"?
Did you know that William R. Bell, the District Officer for Malaita in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate from 1915 to 1927, was killed while collecting a head tax from the resistant Kwaio?
Did you know that according to Greek mythology, the festival of Delia was instituted by Theseus after slaying the Minotaur?
Did you know that cloud suck has dragged paragliders to altitudes as high as 9,946 meters (32,600 feet)?