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Did you know that Svinøy island of Norway is so exposed to the wind and high seas that supply boats to the island's lighthouse could not dock but had to be lifted up by a crane?
Did you know that Tom Collen resigned over a discrepancy about his résumé a day after becoming Vanderbilt University's women's basketball head coach, but his résumé was correct?
Did you know that although tall waterhemp is considered a weed in 40 U.S. states, it does not appear on the federal noxious weed list or any state lists?
Did you know that an F4U Corsair from Marine Fighting Squadron 441 (insignia pictured) clipped the superstructure of the USS Laffey (DD-724) while chasing a kamikaze aircraft during the Battle of Okinawa?
Did you know that before becoming the Judge Advocate General of the United States Navy, Thomas Leigh Gatch was awarded two Navy Crosses?
Did you know that during the Boonah crisis in October 1918, 31 people died of the Spanish flu  aboard the Australian troopship the HMAT Boonah?
Did you know that each title of the thirteen episodes of the 2007 Japanese animated television series Blue Drop: Tenshitachi no Gikyoku is the name of a flower seen in that episode?
Did you know that in the 13th and 14th centuries, the Mongol Empire had an alliance with the Armenians against their common enemy, the Muslim Mamluks?
Did you know that in the cuisine of the Thirteen Colonies, coffee became the alternative to tea after the enactment of the Tea Act of 1773?
Did you know that many churchgoers in the 1920s believed that Ronald Reagan's mother, Nelle Wilson Reagan, had the gift to heal due to her strong belief in the power of prayer?
Did you know that most of Manchester's Grade I listed buildings are Victorian, because of Manchester's growth during the Industrial Revolution?
Did you know that netball in New Zealand is the most popular women's sport in the country, led by its high-profile national team, the Silver Ferns?
Did you know that the 2001 single by Mylène Farmer, C'est une belle journée, was released in April, 2002 after the success of the album, Les Mots, rather than its scheduled date of release?
Did you know that the Battle of Chudniv in 1660 was the largest Polish victory over the Russians until the Battle of Warsaw in 1920?
Did you know that the Italian winery Vini Lunardelli produced a controversial "historical line" of wine bottles featuring images of Che Guevara, Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin on their labels?
Did you know that the Near-Earth object and Mars-crosser asteroid 2007 WD5 is estimated to have a 1-in-75 chance of colliding with Mars?
Did you know that the Rowan County War resulted in 20 deaths, talk of dissolving Rowan County, Kentucky, and the founding of what would become Morehead State University?
Did you know that the city of West Sacramento, California is converting the former State Route 275 freeway into a surface road by replacing interchanges with at-grade intersections?
Did you know that the modern Croatian intelligence community emerged as an integral force in Croatia's war for independence, spying on rival Yugoslav republics?
Did you know that there are two separate churches dedicated to St Werburgh in the village of Warburton, Greater Manchester?
Did you know that when St Hilary's Church in Wallasey, England burnt down in 1857, a new church was built separately, leaving the tower of the old medieval church as a free-standing edifice?
Did you know that 67 Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand Article XV squadrons were formed during World War II from graduates of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan?
Did you know that John Considine, pioneering American vaudeville impresario, once shot and killed a former chief of police of Seattle who had come gunning for him?
Did you know that John Cort, founder of Broadway's Cort Theatre, first made his name by booking variety entertainment in the bawdy box houses of Seattle, Washington, USA?
Did you know that Josiah Parsons Cooke had little formal education in chemistry, and instead spent eight months in Europe for advanced studies in the subject after he became Professor of Chemistry and Mineralogy at Harvard in 1850?
Did you know that Oregon State University’s Wave Research Laboratory has the world’s largest tsunami simulator?
Did you know that Portugal was taken to court over its failure to implement EU directives regarding its water supply and sanitation systems?
Did you know that Psalms 134 and 135 are usually chanted during the Polyeleos, a festive portion of the Matins or All-night vigil services in some Eastern Christian Churches, but Psalm 44 is chanted instead on feasts of the Theotokos in Greece?
Did you know that Shruti Haasan, the daughter of Indian actors Kamal Haasan and Sarika, is a singer turned model who is now also venturing into acting?
Did you know that Utricularia inflata is one of the few invasive species of carnivorous plant?
Did you know that a hook gauge detects irregularities in manufacturer sizing of crochet hooks and knitting needles?
Did you know that besides utility poles (example pictured), anonymous knitters from Knitta have also left their tags on the Great Wall of China and the Notre Dame de Paris?
Did you know that during the French and Indian War Henry Timberlake was an emissary to the Overhill Cherokee whose journals became a primary source for later studies of eighteenth-century Cherokee?
Did you know that in the landmark case Riggins v. Nevada, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that a mentally ill person cannot be forced to take antipsychotic medication while on trial merely to maintain his competency during trial?
Did you know that irritable hip is the most common cause of limp and sudden pain in and around the hip in children aged three to ten?
Did you know that one of the earliest references to Indian wine was the writings of Chanakya in the 4th century BCE commenting on its prevalence in the court of Emperor Chandragupta Maurya?
Did you know that paramilitary loyalist Tommy Herron declared war on the British Army, but called it off after two days?
Did you know that rugby union footballer Robert Wilson Shaw was so influential in Scotland's Triple Crown winning victory over England in 1938 that the match became known as "Wilson Shaw's match"?
Did you know that the 17th chief of the Clan Maclachlan was killed by a cannonball while leading his Jacobite clansmen at the Battle of Culloden in 1746?
Did you know that the Herbert C. Hoover Building in Washington, D.C. not only houses the headquarters of the United States Department of Commerce, but is also the site of the Population Clock, National Aquarium, and White House Visitor Center?
Did you know that the Theatre on Terazije is a Broadway-style theatre in Belgrade where the Serbian version of Chicago, Kiss Me, Kate,  A Chorus Line and other musicals are performed?
Did you know that the closing of Nittany Furnace in 1911 marked the end of modern iron-production in Bellefonte, and presaged the decline of the Pennsylvanian town?
Did you know that the philosophical question of temporal finitism has never been fully settled?
Did you know that the producer of White Zinfandel originally wanted to name the wine after the old rosé style Oeil de Perdrix?
Did you know that without adequate scouting, Russian forces advanced blindly into the Battle of Lubar in 1658 during the Russo-Polish War, and were soundly defeated by a Polish army much larger than expected?
Did you know that American artist Sybil Gibson started painting in 1963, aged 55, using the medium of powdered tempera paints on brown paper grocery bags?
Did you know that Ilha dos Marinheiros, the largest and most fertile island in the lagoon Lagoa dos Patos, produces about 80% of the vegetables consumed in Rio Grande, Brazil?
Did you know that Jimmie Lewallen turned down an offer to buy into NASCAR because "it would never amount to anything"?
Did you know that Section 44 of the Australian Constitution has been interpreted as meaning that persons with dual citizenship are ineligible to run for the Australian parliament?
Did you know that Vannimais were feudal divisions of Sri Lanka?
Did you know that despite his never having been emperor, Li Chengqi was posthumously honoured as such by the Tang Chinese Emperor Xuanzong?
Did you know that during his U.S. Air Force career, Colorado state representative Kent Lambert oversaw military support for the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster investigation at Air Force Space Command?
Did you know that footballer Roy Cheetham was the first Manchester City player to be used as a substitute?
Did you know that in the history of commercial tobacco in the United States, an African slave named Stephan changed the process of curing tobacco by using charcoal taken from a local blacksmith’s fire rather than the usual logwood?
Did you know that signs of spring trending to earlier arrivals are evidence of season creep?
Did you know that studies of the inshore marine fish small-scale whiting (Sillago parvisquamis, pictured) suggest the female starts life smaller than the male, but grows faster and is larger than the male within two years?
Did you know that the 477th Fighter Group is the first and only unit of F-22A Raptors in the U.S. Air Force Reserve Command?
Did you know that the ANAK Society, Georgia Tech's oldest secret society, claims to have covertly protected the university's first African American students during Georgia Tech's racial integration in the 1960s?
Did you know that the All-American football player John Maulbetsch was known as the "Featherweight Fullback" because he weighed only 155 pounds (70 kg) and ate two pies a day for dinner during his playing career?
Did you know that the Australian Test cricketer Colin McCool bowled his leg spin deliveries with a round arm action so pronounced that his arm was almost parallel to the pitch?
Did you know that the Deperdussin Monocoque was the first aircraft to fly faster than 100 miles per hour?
Did you know that the Rhone Rangers, winemakers who promote the use of grapes from the Rhône Valley in France, were a driving force behind Syrah's increased popularity among Californian wines?
Did you know that the Tigmamanukan, a Philippine mythological bird, can be a good or bad omen depending on the direction of its flight?
Did you know that the plans for renovation of the Mausoleum of Yugoslavian Soldiers in Olomouc, the Czech Republic had to be stopped due to the breakup of Yugoslavia, which owned the property rights?
Did you know that the projected Russian hypersonic aircraft Ayaks was supposed to use novel "magneto-plasmo-chemical engines" capable of working in the mesosphere?
Did you know that the role of Osmin in the German opera The Abduction from the Seraglio was tailor-made by Mozart for his friend Ludwig Fischer?
Did you know that the town of Orlová in the Czech Republic was named for the eagle that, legend has it, caused the premature birth of Kazimierz, son of Duke Mieszko and his wife, Ludmiła, on the spot where the town was founded?
Did you know that Eadfrith of Lindisfarne, bishop of Lindisfarne from 698 to 721, is said to have been the creator of the Lindisfarne Gospels, a Hiberno-Saxon illuminated manuscript which took an estimated two years to complete?
Did you know that Gustave Ferbert quit his job as head football coach at the University of Michigan in 1900 to prospect for gold in the Klondike Gold Rush and returned home in 1909 as a millionaire?
Did you know that Haridas Mundhra got the Indian government in 1956 to invest $10 million in his sinking firms, a scandal which further exposed the rift between Feroze Gandhi and his wife Indira Gandhi, daughter of Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru?
Did you know that Judges Cave and Regicides Trail in West Rock Ridge, Connecticut, USA were named for two judges who hid in the area in 1660 after signing the death warrant of the King Charles I?
Did you know that New Harmony's Atheneum is named after the ancient Greek temple to the goddess Athena, the Athenaion?
Did you know that The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less by Barry Schwartz explains the counterintuitive result that consumers are often more frustrated and anxious with more shopping choices rather than fewer?
Did you know that Wichita, Kansas mayor Russell Jump was, at the time of his death at the age of 105, recognized as one of the longest lived individuals to have held public office?
Did you know that William Cunningham became Michigan's first All-American based on his performance in an 1898 game against Chicago that inspired Louis Elbel to write the school's fight song, The Victors?
Did you know that in March 2007, Agnes Devanadera ' became the 41st and first woman Solicitor General of the Philippines?
Did you know that scenic State Route 160 crosses California's Sacramento River twice on 1923 bascule bridges (one pictured) patented by Joseph B. Strauss, who went on to design the Golden Gate Bridge?
Did you know that some members of the Nazi SS became eligible for their 25-year SS Long Service Awards well before their completion of 25 years of service?
Did you know that television director Michael Lange's Jewish heritage landed him a non-speaking role as a rabbi in the episode "The Chrismukkah Bar-Mitzvahkkah" of The O.C., a show for which he had previously directed?
Did you know that television director and editor Norman Buckley's older sister Betty landed him his first editing job on Tender Mercies, a film she featured in?
Did you know that the Celts and Illyrians introduced winemaking to Slovenia long before it was commonly practiced in France, Germany and Spain?
Did you know that the Peshwa general Chimnaji Appa built the Vajreshwari temple to thank the goddess Vajreshwari for the conquest of the Bassein Fort in 1739?
Did you know that the Toyota 7 was the first sports prototype racing car built by Toyota Motor Corporation, debuting at the 1968 Japanese Grand Prix?
Did you know that the ancient Chinese text Huangdi Yinfujing, attributed to the mythical emperor Huangdi in the 3rd century BCE, may have been a forgery from the Tang Dynasty (618–907 CE)?
Did you know that the country music band Pearl River was hired as a backing band for Bryan White, a singer who previously sold T-shirts for the band?
Did you know that the current Foreign Minister of Albania, Lulzim Basha, used to work for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and helped prepare the file against Slobodan Milosevic?
Did you know that the sole surviving Class D16 4-4-0 American-type steam locomotive, is preserved and currently on display near the same tracks on which it operated for many years?
Did you know that Aimé Guibert, owner and winemaker of Mas de Daumas Gassac, was featured in the documentary Mondovino stating that "wine is dead"?
Did you know that Al Javery, deferred from serving in World War II due to varicose veins, led all Major League Baseball pitchers in 1943 with 303 innings pitched?
Did you know that Azizul Huque gave up his Knighthood after the Calcutta Riots in 1946?
Did you know that Colorado state representative Spencer Swalm spent time as a Christian missionary in Bolivia?
Did you know that Ellenville Middle School abandoned an experiment with single-sex classes after the school failed to meet No Child Left Behind Act standards?
Did you know that Empress Dowager Wu of Tang China had Wu Youji’s wife secretly killed in 690 CE so that he could marry her widowed daughter, the Princess Taiping?
Did you know that Empress Dowager Wu of Tang China was so fond of Feng Xiaobao, she had him undertake tonsure to become a Buddhist monk in order to facilitate his entering and exiting her palace?
Did you know that Laurent de Premierfait was the first French translator of Giovanni Boccaccio's material, which was done only for personal financial gain?
Did you know that Namibia Commercial Aviation has used the former presidential aircraft of Yugoslavia and Zambia for passenger flights?
Did you know that Navajo rugs sold for $50 in gold as early as 1850?
Did you know that New Mexico State Road 4 forms the core of Jemez Mountain Trail National Scenic Byway, with trails to Puebloan ruins, a 10,199-foot mountain, and a 70-foot waterfall from roadside turnouts?
Did you know that Pratap Singh was the last ruler of Thanjavur to be officially referred to by the English East India Company as "His Majesty"?
Did you know that Ronald Reagan's autobiography, An American Life, reached number eight on The New York Times' bestsellers list?
Did you know that Section 121 of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act in U.S. law is named the “Megan Nicole Kanka and Alexandra Nicole Zapp Community Notification Program”, after two victims of violent crimes?
Did you know that Surveyor General William Light initially planned to build the city of Adelaide on the banks of the Sturt River before establishing it near the River Torrens instead?
Did you know that William Stewart Simkins, later professor emeritus at the University of Texas School of Law, may have fired the first shot of the US Civil War?
Did you know that a poll of 1000 respondents conducted in 2006 indicated that 26% of Americans say the United States "should not be involved" with the United Nations?
Did you know that after screenwriter Chuck Tatham's brother and writing partner Jamie quit their first job and returned to their hometown, Chuck went on to be nominated for two Emmys?
Did you know that articulation begins with the junction produced by creating a joint and is defined by the degree joints are seen as a "distinct break" from each other, in contrast to joints that seem fluid and continuous with the whole?
Did you know that besides Bartter syndrome, endocrinologist Frederic Bartter also identified the syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone?
Did you know that blackfin scad is a popular food fish in Cambodia and Thailand, where it is served fried, steamed or baked?
Did you know that consuming excess carotenoids may lead to their deposition in the stratum corneum and a yellow to yellow-orange discoloration of the skin in a medical condition known as carotenoderma?
Did you know that eight human skeletons linked to suspected serial killer Daniel Conahan triggered the largest excavation of human remains in Florida history?
Did you know that fingerboards are reduced scale model figures of skateboards that  are featured in videos and used as 3-D visual aids for skateboarders to understand potential tricks and maneuvers?
Did you know that former Chicago Blackhawks player Al Suomi was offered a contract to play with a local St. Louis, Missouri hockey team at the age of 93?
Did you know that the 5th-century baptistery of the Cathedral of Saint-Léonce, one of France's oldest Christian structures, was concealed after reconstructions in the 13th century and re-discovered in 1925?
Did you know that the 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion was the first tank destroyer battalion of the United States Army to see combat in World War II?
Did you know that the Battle of Szkłów in 1654 occurred during a solar eclipse?
Did you know that the Hurricane Creek mine disaster, which killed 38 men in 1970, occurred exactly a year after passage of the first federal legislation regulating mine safety?
Did you know that the Iron Range and Huron Bay Railroad never operated a single train, despite completing a 42-mile (68 km) line and its own ore dock at a cost of over two million dollars?
Did you know that the Ramesseum medical papyri contained an contraceptive formula and a method to predict the likelihood of a newborn's survival?
Did you know that the day Wu Zetian, China's only female Emperor, was overthrown in 705 CE, Zhang Yizhi and Zhang Changzong were killed and their heads were hung at an entrance to the capital?
Did you know that All-American Bump Elliott and his brother Pete Elliott played halfback and quarterback for the Michigan football team that beat the USC Trojans 49-0 in the Rose Bowl 60 years ago on 1 Jan. 1948?
Did you know that Campanula gelida, an endemic species of a bellflower, grows in nature only on one rock in the Czech Republic?
Did you know that Cliff Mapes, a Major League outfielder who played only three full seasons, was the starting right fielder for the New York Yankees' first of five consecutive world championships, in 1949?
Did you know that Danish-American artist Antonio Jacobsen was called the "Audubon of Steam Vessels" for the scope, breadth and intricate details in the 6,000 works of sail and steam ships he painted?
Did you know that Ernest Dynes, best known as an English cricketer in the 1920s and 1930s, served as Aide-de-camp to Queen Elizabeth II between 1955 and 1957, for which he was awarded the CBE?
Did you know that Heinrich Steinhowel, a 15th-century German scholar and humanist who was physician to Eberhard, Count of Württemberg, is better known for translating Aesop's Fables into German?
Did you know that National Scientist Dr. Fe del Mundo was the first Filipina  enrolled in Harvard Medical School and the only female student at that time?
Did you know that Soviet sculptor Sergey Merkurov was the author of the three biggest monuments of Joseph Stalin erected in the USSR during the period of Stalinism?
Did you know that The Faun, a rare sculpture by Paul Gauguin, displayed for a decade by the Art Institute of Chicago and the van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam was actually a fake by British forger Shaun Greenhalgh?
Did you know that U.S. Route 199 is numbered as a spur of U.S. Route 99, which no longer exists?
Did you know that William W. Bedsworth, a judge at the California Courts of Appeal, is also a goal judge with the National Hockey League?
Did you know that a PRR Class E6 steam locomotive powered train equipped with a mobile darkroom for developing newsreels en route, delivered footage from Washington to New York faster than a chartered plane?
Did you know that carbonate hardgrounds were most commonly formed during calcite sea intervals in the Ordovician and Jurassic periods in Earth's history, but were virtually absent from the aragonite seas of the Permian era?
Did you know that in 1999, Song Il-gon became the first Korean filmmaker to win an award at the Cannes Film Festival?
Did you know that prior to the emergence of anarcho-pacifism at the outbreak of World War II, there was a general agreement among anarchists that violence was inevitable?
Did you know that the 2007 film 10 MPH documents a 100-day, 4,064-mile journey across the United States on a Segway scooter?
Did you know that the Brocard points, the Brocard circle and the Brocard triangle are named after French geometer Henri Brocard, who spent most of his life studying meteorology with no notable original contributions to the subject?
Did you know that the Crested Shelduck is a critically endangered duck that has not been definitively seen since 1964, despite a handful of possible sightings and numerous surveys of its presumed habitat?
Did you know that the Mezhyhirskyi Monastery in Ukraine, mentioned in Nikolai Gogol’s novel Taras Bulba, is thought to have included the lost library of Yaroslav the Wise?
Did you know that the Stora Istad wind park had to reduce its power output to below 10 MW in order to comply with Swedish law?
Did you know that the name of Stob Choire Claurigh in Scotland translates from Gaelic as “Peak of the Brawling Corrie”, referring to the roaring of the stags inhabiting the corries of the mountain during the breeding season?
Did you know that wine made from the Italian grape Refosco dal Peduncolo Rosso was praised by Pliny the Elder and a favorite of Caesar Augustus' wife Livia?
Did you know that , in November 2002, autonomous regions replaced departments as the first-level administrative subdivisions of Peru in an attempt to achieve an effective decentralization of the country?
Did you know that Bill Jenkins' dragsters were known as "Grumpy's Toys"?
Did you know that Christian anarchist Dave Andrews was excommunicated from the parachurch Youth With A Mission?
Did you know that Jan IV Oświęcimski, the duke of Oświęcim from 1445 to 1456, harassed the King of Poland so much that he was paid a debt that was promised him four years earlier?
Did you know that Judy Garland is considered a gay icon for her "wonderfully over-the-top" film characters including her portrayal of Dorothy Gale in the The Wizard of Oz?