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Did you know that Lawrence Turner, who presented a Parliamentary petition calling for W. S. Gilbert's copyright on the libretti of Gilbert and Sullivan operas to be extended indefinitely, was the grandson of comic actor George Grossmith who starred in them?
Did you know that as a result of his role in the Peasants' War, the German Renaissance painter Jerg Ratgeb was executed by being torn apart by four horses?
Did you know that before the Bagratids unified Georgia, Caucasian Iberia was ruled by a succession of princes under the influence of the Byzantines, the Persians and the Muslim Caliphate from the 6th to the 9th centuries?
Did you know that hatchlings of the Cape Fear Shiner, a critically endangered minnow endemic to central North Carolina, feed off of their egg yolk for five days after they hatch?
Did you know that in chemical kinetics, Lindemann mechanisms have been used to model gas phase decomposition reactions?
Did you know that newly named U.S. Naval Academy head football coach Ken Niumatalolo is believed to be the first Pacific Islander American to be head coach at a major college football program?
Did you know that only eight of the planned 296 miles of the Indiana Central Canal were built, due to Indiana being bankrupted by the Panic of 1837?
Did you know that shoots of the Almond Willow are used extensively for basket-making?
Did you know that the Carolina dayflower is actually from India and was named in the United States nearly a century before it was described in its native country?
Did you know that the Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary has been criticized by adherents of the King-James-Only Movement for convincing some Independent Baptist groups to adopt modern Bible translations?
Did you know that the National Library of Singapore, the Seattle Central Library, and Minneapolis Central Library are examples of green libraries, using environmentally conscious designs?
Did you know that the Polish rock band Czerwone Gitary reached the heights of its popularity in the 1960s, and was known as the Polish Beatles?
Did you know that the non-fiction book Getting It: The psychology of est was the first book to analyze Werner Erhard's Erhard Seminars Training from a psychological point of view?
Did you know that the tradition of a Ukrainian flower wreath, a headdress worn by girls and young unmarried women, dates back to the pagan Slavic customs that predate the Christianization of Rus?
Did you know that there is no such bird as a woofen-poof?
Did you know that twice named All-American football tackle Robert "Brick" Wahl later became CEO of a Fortune 500 irrigation equipment company?
Did you know that "I Am Your Gummy Bear", a silly novelty song whose video features a "jolly and jiggly" lime green cartoon gummi bear and a 30-second video clip in eight languages, is an internet meme?
Did you know that 20 year old tobacco store clerk Eddie Kolb was allowed to pitch the last regular season baseball game for the 1899 Cleveland Spiders in exchange for a box of cigars?
Did you know that Aline was an ordinary woman who lived in 1st century AD Egypt, and whose name and portrait were preserved in her grave?
Did you know that Chase Austin was the first African American racecar driver to race in the NASCAR Busch Series?
Did you know that Chinese-American author Laurence Yep's fantasy novel Dragon of the Lost Sea was originally conceived as a picture book adaptation of a folktale involving the Monkey King, a popular Chinese mythical character?
Did you know that Chris Harris was the first basketballer from England to play in the NBA?
Did you know that Country-Western singer, songwriter and actor Jimmy Wakely had his own series of DC Comics comic books, billing him as "Hollywood's Sensational Cowboy Star!"?
Did you know that John Pitre's 1965 visionary art painting, A New Dawn, which was valued at $1.7 million in 1997, was offered in trade for a £1 million house in London in 2004?
Did you know that Lorraine Collett was the original model for the girl featured on Sun-Maid raisin packaging?
Did you know that Mexican actress Pina Pellicer played the lover of Marlon Brando in One Eyed Jacks, the only movie Brando directed?
Did you know that Muhtar Kent, named to assume the post of CEO of the Coca-Cola Company on July 1, 2008, is the son of a Turkish diplomat, who risked his life to save Jews in France during the Holocaust?
Did you know that Otto Magnus von Stackelberg, Russian ambassador to Poland, can be considered an unofficial but de facto ruler of Poland?
Did you know that Philip Pullman's novel Clockwork was adapted into an opera for children?
Did you know that Princess Stéphanie of Monaco’s song "Ouragan" was a number one hit in France?
Did you know that RAAF Beaufort squadrons fighting in New Guinea under the command of Group Captain Val Hancock were so short of ammunition in 1945 that they used captured Japanese ordnance to augment their bomb loads?
Did you know that Tom Wolfe's 1981 book From Bauhaus to Our House blames the influence of International style European architects for creating many buildings that nobody likes?
Did you know that boats crammed with people from both India and Bangladesh, flying the flags of their respective countries, converge on the Ichamati River, the international border, to immerse the idols after Durga Puja?
Did you know that buildings in Kuala Lumpur have Mughal, Tudor, Neo-Gothic or Spanish architectural styles modified  to use local resources and for the climate of Malaysia?
Did you know that the 25,000-year-old Venus of Brassempouy is one of the oldest known realistic depictions of a human face?
Did you know that the Duchess of Marlborough egg is the only Fabergé egg to have been commissioned by an American?
Did you know that the F class destroyer HMS Fury carried the former King Edward VIII to France the day after he abdicated the throne?
Did you know that the National Assembly, Germany's legislature from 1919 to 1920, convened in Weimar to remind the World War I Allies of Germany's cultural history such as the Weimar residents Goethe and Schiller?
Did you know that the oasis town of Iferouane in northern Niger was the site of the first attack carried out by the Niger Movement for Justice, which marked the beginning of the Second Tuareg Rebellion?
Did you know that British comedians Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie made one of their earliest television appearances in their 1983 television pilot The Crystal Cube, a show the BBC hated?
Did you know that Dumas House, a government office building in Perth, Western Australia, is named in honour of engineer and public servant Sir Russell John Dumas?
Did you know that Ebrulf left his position as a Merovingian courtier to become a hermit?
Did you know that George K. Gay's house was the first brick house in Oregon and served as the boundary marker between Yamhill and Polk counties?
Did you know that Georgiana Harcourt, a 19th century English correspondent and translator, was the daughter of Edward Venables-Vernon-Harcourt, the Archbishop of York?
Did you know that Liberian park Sapo National Park contains the second-largest tropical rainforest in West Africa after Taï National Park in neighbouring Côte d'Ivoire?
Did you know that Luo Binwang wrote a sharply worded accusation against Empress Wu Zetian, China's only female emperor, that impressed her so much that after his death she collected his writings and published them?
Did you know that Madeline L'Engle ran writers' workshops and retreats every January at Holy Cross Monastery in West Park, New York?
Did you know that Marsha Looper, a Republican state legislator elected to the Colorado House of Representatives in 2006 by a 2-to-1 margin, is also a systems engineer, real estate broker, and rancher?
Did you know that Qaqun, a Palestinian village depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, had been continuously inhabited by Arabs since as early as the Mamluk period?
Did you know that Richard Nolte was appointed as U.S. ambassador to the United Arab Republic for three weeks in 1967 but never served due to the outbreak of the Six-Day War?
Did you know that Wales had one of the highest literacy rates in eighteenth century Europe thanks to the wealthy Bridget Bevan, who sponsored a system of "circulating schools"?
Did you know that a symbolic April 1995 boat trip—celebrating the foundation of the Mekong River Commission—was unable to cross the Mekong River because China was filling the reservoir of its Manwan Dam?
Did you know that after the fall of Napoleon in France, some 200 Bonapartists fled to the United States and attempted to establish an agricultural settlement to grow wine grapes and olive trees in the Alabama wilderness?
Did you know that at the time, the 1947 Sydney hailstorm, which hospitalised at least 350 people, was the most severe storm to strike the city since records began in 1792?
Did you know that during the Samanid dynasty, commentary on Persian poetry took the form of either slander or excessive praise, usually through sophistry or exaggeration of trivial errors in a rival's poetry?
Did you know that future four-star admiral John H. Sides, father of the United States Navy's guided-missile program, risked his career by participating in the Revolt of the Admirals?
Did you know that retired Major General Charles D. Metcalf is the current Director of the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, the world’s oldest and largest military aviation museum?
Did you know that the Berlin Foundry Cup, an ancient Greek drinking cup by the Foundry Painter, depicts the operations of a bronze sculpture workshop?
Did you know that the California wine industry accounts for nearly 90% of all U.S. production, and if California were a country it would be the world's fourth largest wine producer?
Did you know that the Gaddafi International Foundation for Charity Associations might be returned $2.33 billion in compensation if the Libyans convicted of the Pan AM and UTA plane bombings are cleared?
Did you know that the Madaba Map is a large Byzantine mosaic from circa 550 CE that depicts the topography of Jerusalem and surrounding areas in great detail?
Did you know that the Smith Point Light at the mouth of the Potomac River was preceded by four other lighthouses and three lightships at the same site?
Did you know that the only elements of the Nativity of Jesus in art (example pictured) to span the whole history of its depiction are the baby, the ox and the ass?
Did you know that until recently many Chilean wines labeled Merlot and Sauvignon blanc were really made from Carménère and Sauvignon vert?
Did you know that Elizabeth Woodville was the first English royal mistress to become the English queen consort?
Did you know that Ralph Millet, who brought the first Saab cars to the United States, discussed production of Saabs in the U.S. in the 1950s, but that the idea was only resurrected with the U.S. production of a Saab in the 2006 model year?
Did you know that Snyder Middleswarth Natural Area lost its status as a Pennsylvania state park in the 1990s despite being a National Natural Landmark and Snyder County's only state park?
Did you know that Terry Pitt died after choking on nicotine-replacement chewing gum in the back of a taxi in Birmingham, England?
Did you know that Venus figurines are Palaeolithic figures of women (example pictured), made in Eurasia between 20,000 and 30,000 years ago?
Did you know that Warren Storm pioneered a South Louisiana musical genre known as swamp pop?
Did you know that Zeta Orionis, or Alnitak, 'the girdle', in Arabic, is the brightest O-type blue supergiant and one of the hottest bright stars in the sky?
Did you know that discards are the portion of a catch of fish which is not retained on board during commercial fishing operations and is returned, often dead or dying, to the sea?
Did you know that following his capture after the Battle of Badajoz in 1812, Major General Armand Philippon was paroled to stay in the Shropshire town of Oswestry?
Did you know that once economic advisor to Margaret Thatcher, Christopher Story went on to publish independent intelligence magazines that are considered important reading by many international top agencies?
Did you know that social activists opine that the extension of the Kolkata Metro on pillars on the bed of Adi Ganga will destroy the waterway?
Did you know that the New Norcia Cricket Team was a team of mainly indigenous cricketers who played in Western Australia between about 1879 and 1906?
Did you know that the Ottawa-Bonnechere Graben  across Ontario from Montreal to  Lake Nipissing, a depression formed by ancient faults, is a failed arm of the ancestor of the Atlantic Ocean?
Did you know that the U.S. Defense Department issued archaeology awareness playing cards to educate soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan on the importance of respecting ancient monuments?
Did you know that the highly prolific  Carignan wine grape is one of the leading culprits of France's wine lake and that the European Union has resorted to paying farmers to uproot their Carignan vines to help alleviate the problem?
Did you know that the molecular weight of a polymer can be determined from data on its intrinsic viscosity using the Mark-Houwink equation?
Did you know that the preface of a book written by Saint Goeznovius is an important document in establishing a historical basis for the mythical British king, King Arthur?
Did you know that the tropical spiderwort (Commelina benghalensis) is a noxious weed in the United States, but used as a remedy against leprosy in Pakistan?
Did you know that the twelve episodes of the Tsukihime, Lunar Legend anime were developed by the Tsukihime Production Committee, which included companies such as Geneon Entertainment, Movic, Tokyo Broadcasting System, and J.C. Staff?
Did you know that though only one melody for every ten songs has been preserved among the work of the troubadours, a remarkable three-quarters of Berenguier de Palazol's surviving poems have melodies?
Did you know that unmatched dye lots can frustrate weeks of labor for a knitter or crocheter?
Did you know that "bunchers" are criminals involved in kidnapping pets from residences, trapping stray animals illegally, and selling them to laboratories for animal testing purposes?
Did you know that Bill Klem, a major league baseball umpire who retired in 1941, holds umpiring records for most games officiated, most World Series officiated and most appearances as the home plate umpire?
Did you know that Ernst Heinrich August de la Motte Fouqué, a Prussian general and confidant of Frederick the Great, was wounded thrice in the Battle of Landeshut, fought in 1760 during the Seven Years' War?
Did you know that Generalissimo Francisco Franco lifted the exile of Francisco Vidal y Barraquer, a Spanish prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, only after reaching a concordat with the Vatican?
Did you know that John Rogers, who helped to prepare a version of the Hebrew Bible, also helped to introduce the man engine, an important reform in Cornish mining?
Did you know that Judeopolonia was a proposed buffer state between the Russian and German Empires with a projected population of 30 million Jews, Poles, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Lithuanians, Latvians, and Baltic Germans?
Did you know that Romanian princess Catherine Caradja was nicknamed the "Angel of Ploieşti" for her humanitarian deeds by American and British airmen who were taken prisoner during the bombing of Romania in World War II?
Did you know that The Australian Golf Club, arguably the oldest in Australia, held its 17th Australian Open between the 13th–16th December 2007, after holding the inaugural edition in 1904?
Did you know that The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco, a 1959 album by jazz band The Cannonball Adderley Quintet, reached the bestseller charts with 50,000 copies sold by May 1960?
Did you know that The Love of Siam director Chukiat Sakweerakul intentionally sought to downplay the 2007 Thai film's gay love story in marketing materials, in hopes of the film reaching a broader audience?
Did you know that according to Hindu mythology, the Tandava, a vigorous dance by Hindu god Shiva, is the source of the cycle of creation, preservation and dissolution of the universe?
Did you know that dealkalizing glass enhances its resistance to corrosion?
Did you know that department store chain Sakowitz was purchased by shopping mall developing firm L. J. Hooker in 1988, so that a location could be opened at Cincinnati's Forest Fair Mall?
Did you know that in Hindu mythology, after Lakshmindara, son of Chand Sadagar, died of snakebite on his wedding night, his bride Behula accompanied his corpse on a raft floating in a river?
Did you know that in return for reinforcements against the Lombards, Cunimund offered Emperor Justin II the city of Sirmium on two separate occasions?
Did you know that the New Orleans Saints first-round draft picks have included Reggie Bush and Archie Manning?
Did you know that the fleet of the Royal Naval Patrol Service, also known as  "Harry Tate's Navy" or "Churchill's Pirates", consisted of hundreds of requisitioned trawler‎s, whalers, drifters, paddle steamers, yachts, tugs and the like?
Did you know that the title of psychiatrist Hervey M. Cleckley's book The Mask of Sanity refers to the mask of  sincerity, generosity, and trustworthiness the psychopath wears to disguise his inability to feel emotion for others?
Did you know that there was once an estuarine valley with a rich abundance of New Zealand flounders near Waipatiki, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand, but it became a stream system after an earthquake in 1931?
Did you know that , though records from the era are sketchy, press accounts reported that All-American football player Frank Steketee once kicked a 100-yard punt?
Did you know that All-American footballer Merv Pregulman, the Green Bay Packers' first pick in the 1944 NFL Draft, nearly died in a kamikaze attack on his ship before ever playing a pro football game?
Did you know that Colombia and India established diplomatic relations on January 19, 1959?
Did you know that Google's Knol project is widely seen as an attempt to compete with Wikipedia?
Did you know that Jeanne Labuda, a Democratic member of the Colorado House of Representatives elected in 2006, was a Peace Corps volunteer in Liberia?
Did you know that Joseph Finegan, an attorney, politician, and railroad builder, was the commander of Confederate forces at the Battle of Olustee, fought in 1864 during the American Civil War?
Did you know that a Belgian, Robert Goffin, was the first person to write a serious book on the indigenous American art-form, jazz?
Did you know that after selecting the wine to make their Grand vin many Bordeaux estates like Château Margaux will use the remaining cuvee to make a second wine?
Did you know that artifacts discovered at Mound Bottom, Tennessee show that the site was part of a vast Native American trading network extending to the Great Lakes, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Appalachian Mountains during the Mississippian era?
Did you know that artist John LeKay exhibited crystal skulls made from paradichlorobenzene, which is usually employed as a toilet deodoriser?
Did you know that drag racer Bob Glidden was the top qualifier in 23 straight National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) events, including every event in the 1987 season?
Did you know that during her first year in the Colorado General Assembly, Democratic legislator Claire Levy sponsored three successful bills regarding energy efficiency standards?
Did you know that during the mid-20th century, wine from Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia accounted for nearly two-thirds of all internationally traded wine?
Did you know that meetings of the Committee of Public Safety, the de facto executive government during the Reign of Terror of the French Revolution, were convened at the Pavillon de Flore in Paris' Palais du Louvre?
Did you know that seeds of redtop (Agrostis gigantea, pictured) are long-lived and display a high germination rate even after years of storage in an uncontrolled environment?
Did you know that the Daguin machine was a cancelling machine first used in post offices in Paris in 1884?
Did you know that the Gomez Mill House, near Marlboro, New York, is the oldest surviving Jewish American residence?
Did you know that the Panhellenic Union of Fighting Youths, a Greek Resistance organization, set a bomb that destroyed the headquarters of the pro-Nazi ESPO organization in the very centre of occupied Athens?
Did you know that the Tribal class destroyer HMS Tartar received the nickname 'Lucky Tartar' due to her numerous escapes from dangerous situations in World War II?
Did you know that the historian and geographer Robin Donkin served in Egypt and Jordan as a lieutenant in the Royal Artillery?
Did you know that the liwan, a long narrow-fronted hall or vaulted portal often open to the outside, has been a feature of Levantine homes for more than 2,000 years?
Did you know that the titles of the thirteen episodes of the Japanese animated television series Gunslinger Girl were given in Italian as well as Japanese?
Did you know that 12 of the 23 medals awarded to Egypt at the Olympics so far were given to competitors in combat sports such as wrestling, boxing, judo and taekwondo?
Did you know that American Civil War leader William Tecumseh Sherman said, "No single body of men can claim more honor for the grand result than the officers and men of the Louisville Legion"?
Did you know that Armenian composer and musician Ara Gevorgyan composed the music for Russian prima ballerina Anastasia Volochkova's "Golden cage" ballet dedicated to the Bolshoi Theater?
Did you know that County Route 91 in Onondaga County, New York is signed as County Route 57 for New York State Route 57, the route it replaced?
Did you know that Dallas Cowboy running back Tony Boles once stole Emmit Smith's Nissan Pathfinder for two days when assigned rookie initiation car washing duties?
Did you know that Dove's Evolution is the first entry to win two Grand Prix awards at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival?
Did you know that John Turner was the first person to be ordered deported from the United States for violation of the 1903 Anarchist Exclusion Act?
Did you know that Ken Schrader became the first driver to win in all of NASCAR's three largest series when he won a Craftsman Truck Series race at Saugus Speedway?
Did you know that Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder of the Republic of Turkey, established the first commercial Turkish winery in 1925?
Did you know that Paul Casanova drove in the winning run in what is considered the longest night game in Major League Baseball history at 6 hours, 38 minutes?
Did you know that Rear Admiral Evelyn J. Fields is the first woman and first African American to be the director of the Office of NOAA Corps Operations and the NOAA Commissioned Corps?
Did you know that about one million animals are used every year in Europe in toxicology testing?
Did you know that at the age of 102, former Labour party secretary Haakon Lie is still an active participant in Norwegian public life?
Did you know that in 2002, hundreds of former mobsters incarcerated in eight jails across Italy, supposedly having no way to contact one another, joined a hunger strike to protest against article 41-bis of the Italian Penitentiary Act?
Did you know that korovai is a traditional Ukrainian wedding bread, baked from wheat flour and decorated with braids?
Did you know that naturalist Jonathan Couch wrote the four-volume A History of the Fishes of the British Islands, with his own coloured illustrations depicting the vivid natural colours of the different species?
Did you know that the Brown mussel Perna perna aggregates in such large amounts that it is able to sink navigational buoys?
Did you know that the International Association for Plant Taxonomy organizes international symposia on problems of plant systematics?
Did you know that the Polish side tried to keep the Suwałki Agreement limited in scope so that it would not interfere with the planned Żeligowski's Mutiny?
Did you know that the first mill for splitting iron into rods and nails, and the first paper mill in the UK, were situated on the River Darent in Kent?