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Did you know that concussions are the fifth-most common type injury in American football, possibly affecting over 100,000 players each year?
Did you know that psychologist Frank Farley once studied men who visit massage parlors?
Did you know that the floors of the vestibule of the Bryn Mawr College Deanery were designed by Henry Chapman Mercer from a 14th-century British design?
Did you know that English sport shooter Mick Gault jointly holds the record for most medals at the Commonwealth Games, but has never been selected for the Olympic Games?
Did you know that Liebmann Hersch's article "International Migration of the Jews", first published in 1931, became a classic work on the topic?
Did you know that Remedios Circle, now considered the center of Manila's nightlife, was originally a cemetery?
Did you know that Saint Boniface allegedly used a book to ward off Frisian sword blows at his martyrdom in 754?
Did you know that Virgil's Fourth Eclogue was believed by some early Christians to have predicted the birth of Jesus of Nazareth?
Did you know that cross-country skier Chris Klebl represented the United States at the 2006 and 2010 Winter Paralympics before winning a gold medal for Canada at the 2014 Games?
Did you know that halfback Eddie Moegle scored the first touchdown for Detroit in the first season of the NFL?
Did you know that the scientific name of the black-backed butcherbird translates as "mental noisy bird"?
Did you know that the video game Device 6 uses mainly text for its gameplay?
Did you know that Anna Schaffelhuber won all five gold medals in para-alpine skier sitting events at the 2014 Winter Paralympics?
Did you know that Mac Marcoux won gold in the Men's Giant Slalom by over two seconds at the 2014 Winter Paralympic Games?
Did you know that Mr. & Mrs. Waite Phillips lived in the penthouse of the Philcade Building after donating their mansion to the city of Tulsa to become the Philbrook Art Museum?
Did you know that cyclist Floortje Mackaij began her career as a speed skater?
Did you know that fossils of 23 mammal species including mammoth, dire wolf, ground sloth, pre-historic bison, camel, and horse have been found at Fossil Lake in south central Oregon?
Did you know that in 1929, Solomon and Hattie Chandler donated land to the state of Oregon for a park, now called Chandler State Wayside?
Did you know that more than eighty species of woodland herbs are found near Spruce Run, including fifteen fern species and twelve sedge species?
Did you know that the flag of Tanzania amalgamated elements of the flags of Tanganyika and Zanzibar, which united in 1964 to form the republic?
Did you know that the massive blue giant star 68 Cygni is surrounded by a ring-shaped nebula?
Did you know that Joe Fitzgerald was the first player in NFL history to return an interception for a touchdown?
Did you know that Ludian was a courier station on the Ancient tea route?
Did you know that in a 1966 interview John Lennon remarked that the Beatles were "more popular than Jesus"?
Did you know that pianist Werner Genuit played the complete works for piano by Richard Wagner for the national congress of the Wagner Society?
Did you know that the BBC Singers and Endymion performed Steve Reich's The Desert Music at the 2014 Proms?
Did you know that the Corythosaurus (mounted skeleton pictured) bore a tall, elaborate bony crest atop its skull, which contained elongate nasal passages?
Did you know that the Vietnamese Nôm Preservation Foundation in Cary, North Carolina, has been preserving the ancient Chữ Nôm script of Vietnam since 1999?
Did you know that the director of the film Pacific Rim drew inspiration from the painting The Colossus, as well as George Bellows's boxing paintings?
Did you know that the excavations for fossils of Pleistocene fauna in Natural Trap Cave, Wyoming, in 2014 included an experiment in taphonomy?
Did you know that the inner part of Stanford University's Main Quad is surrounded by twelve buildings, numbered 1 through 110?
Did you know that Gordon Ramsay's Bread Street Kitchen cost £3 million to build?
Did you know that Howard Gobioff was one of the architects of the Google File System, which allowed for computation speeds never before possible?
Did you know that Major General Harold J. Greene is the highest-ranking American servicemember killed on foreign soil since the Vietnam War?
Did you know that Race is the first feature film about Jesse Owens, who won a record-breaking four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games?
Did you know that Steve Ormerod chairs Europe's largest wildlife conservation charity?
Did you know that Trafalgar High School, established for non-whites in Cape Town, defiantly refused to move after its part of the city was declared "whites only"?
Did you know that according to local tradition, the shrine of Muawiya in the town of Basma is named after a soldier in Saladin's army who was slain near the town?
Did you know that the 6th Division Cavalry Regiment's use of tanks during the capture of Tobruk in 1941 was the first time that Australian forces operated tanks in action?
Did you know that the Selle Français is a French sport horse, recognized internationally as a top breed for show jumping and three-day eventing?
Did you know that the assassination of Augusto Unceta Barrenechea was the Basque separatist group ETA's deadliest attack of 1977, and marked the beginning of a more violent phase in the group's operations?
Did you know that the stoor worm, a sea monster of Orcadian mythology, could destroy humans with its putrid breath?
Did you know that Charles Darwin discovered the Iago sparrow on the first stop of the voyage of the Beagle?
Did you know that Hugh Lowery taught formation flying in World War I and later played in the National Football League's first season?
Did you know that Jack Kilmer first acted at age 18, when he starred in Palo Alto with his father Val Kilmer?
Did you know that despite receiving the most votes in the 1959 elections, the Dahomeyan Democratic Union emerged as the smallest of the three parties in the Territorial Assembly?
Did you know that on its 1856 opening, the Illinois Central Railroad's Great Central Station was the largest building in Chicago?
Did you know that the memorial to members of the United Kingdom's Houses of Parliament killed in the First World War was damaged by bombing in the Second World War?
Did you know that Anabel was the first Brazilian animation series on Nickelodeon Brazil?
Did you know that Jimmy the raven could open envelopes and ride a motorcycle, appeared in some 1000 films (including It's a Wonderful Life), and earned a Red Cross gold medal?
Did you know that Romanian opera singer and film actress Maria Forescu died in the Buchenwald concentration camp?
Did you know that although abortion is generally illegal in Sint Maarten, it is legal and accessible "just a walk away across the border" in Saint Martin?
Did you know that despite nationwide speculation, John Hay never acknowledged his authorship of The Bread-Winners, published anonymously in 1883?
Did you know that in later life, baseball player Dan Casey claimed he was "Casey at the Bat"?
Did you know that in the Kibi Clan Rebellion, Japan lost its hold on the Korean peninsula because of a beautiful woman?
Did you know that on its 2012 centenary, the Rio de Janeiro cableway was honored with a Google Doodle in Brazil?
Did you know that the Olympic violet is found only on the eastern and northeastern peaks of the Olympic Mountains in Washington state?
Did you know that the last Norse–Gaelic King of Dublin, Ascall mac Ragnaill, was captured and executed in 1171 after failing to reclaim his kingdom from the English?
Did you know that the murder of 14-year-old schoolgirl Leigh Leigh inspired a theatrical play that was later adapted into a feature film?
Did you know that the oldest memorial in All Saints' Church, Runcorn, Cheshire, is dedicated to two women, "both good wives"?
Did you know that 100 years ago today the French 3rd Colonial Division was virtually destroyed at the Battle of Rossignol?
Did you know that Charles de Visscher, a Belgian judge of the International Court of Justice, was orphaned at age twelve?
Did you know that Cicero's lost Consolatio (45 BC) is widely accepted as the distinct work that transmitted the earlier consolatio literary tradition to the Romans of the late Republic?
Did you know that Des pas sur la neige, Ce qu'a vu le vent d'ouest, and La fille aux cheveux de lin by Claude Debussy form "the central arch" of the structure of his first book of Préludes?
Did you know that Josefina de la Torre, closely associated with the Generation of '27, was a columnist for the film magazine Primer Plano?
Did you know that Marina Frolova-Walker has delivered lectures on music at venues ranging from Carnegie Hall to factories in Kazakhstan?
Did you know that Valentin Wolfenstein owned the first successful photography studio in Los Angeles?
Did you know that approximately 200 bird species have been observed on or near Lake Chillisquaque in Montour County, Pennsylvania?
Did you know that baseball pitcher, dentist, and voice trainer Jumping Jack Jones leapt into the air before throwing, making him "the twirling marvel of his time"?
Did you know that intimacy between a retired Empress and a monk was one of the causes of the Fujiwara no Nakamaro Rebellion?
Did you know that the Hindu deity Heramba, protector of the weak, is associated with rites for inflicting harm on one's enemies?
Did you know that the noble Roman Altieri family, which ascended the papal throne in 1670 with Clement X, pretended to be descended from an unknown ancient Roman citizen named Lucius Alterius?
Did you know that Andrew Carnegie objected to his grant money being used for amenities such as a dome, public meeting room, and fireplaces in the Guthrie, Oklahoma Carnegie Library?
Did you know that Norman Morrice was the artistic director of Ballet Rambert and The Royal Ballet, the UK's two major ballet companies?
Did you know that Sir Mark Palmer, a godson of Queen Elizabeth II, started an early male modelling agency before leading a band of New Age travellers?
Did you know that Steamer Horning was an All-American football player for Colgate and a two-time All-NFL player for Toledo?
Did you know that Taylor Swift's single "Shake It Off" is dedicated to her haters?
Did you know that pride parades in South Africa are increasingly used for political advocacy against LGBT hate crimes and to remember their victims?
Did you know that the mix of modern elements and traditional gothic norms in "The Harrowing", episode six of Inside No. 9, was used for both comedy and horror?
Did you know that the silky pocket mouse sometimes shares a burrow with the banner-tailed kangaroo rat or the Phillips' kangaroo rat?
Did you know that the southern boobook is so named for its two-toned call?
Did you know that Charles W. Crawford was in charge of wireless telegraphy in Somaliland during actions against the "Mad Mullah"?
Did you know that Fritz Delius played Louis XIV of France in the 1920 German film Am Liebeshof des Sonnen­königs?
Did you know that Hundeprutterutchebane, Denmark's "Dog Fart Roller­coaster", takes riders past a statue of a defecat­ing dog and "gives new meaning to the phrase 'the wind in my face'"?
Did you know that Northwest Coast artist Jim Hart is a hereditary chief of the Haida Nation?
Did you know that dissolved lime in the waters of New York's Sucker Brook forms the rare "water biscuits" found on the north shore of Canandaigua Lake's Squaw Island?
Did you know that during World War II, an island in southern Oregon's Gerber Reservoir was used as a military bombing range?
Did you know that the British television series Inside No. 9 won the Sketch and Comedy prize at the 35th annual Banff World Media Festival Rockie Awards?
Did you know that while Chinese parents have begun putting their toddlers in diapers instead of open-crotch pants, Western advocates of elimina­tion communica­tion have been moving toward using them?
Did you know that Anna Rüling, "the first lesbian activist" and one of the first women to publicly declare her homosexuality, believed that lesbians were more suited to careers than straight women?
Did you know that General San Martín's Monument was inaugurated on the 50th anniversary of Neuquén, Argentina?
Did you know that Legacy Mount Hood Medical Center in Gresham, Oregon, did not get a permanent MRI machine until 2001?
Did you know that according to the Nihon Shoki, the claimant to the throne in the Prince Hoshikawa Rebellion was burned in the treasury?
Did you know that after the ship Favorite was sunk at its moorings in Oregon, it was refloated within days?
Did you know that baseball's Jim Manning was one of the organizers of both the Western League and its successor the American League?
Did you know that birds found in Indonesia's Gunung Ambang Nature Reserve include the golden-mantled racket-tail, the chestnut-backed bush warbler, the Matinan blue flycatcher, the dark-eared myza, the scaly-breasted kingfisher, the cerulean cuckooshrike and the Sulawesi masked owl?
Did you know that in pursuit of his foreign policy objectives, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi made an official visit to Nepal and was the first foreign leader to address that country's parliament?
Did you know that leaders of the pro-Mali Federation Mauritanian National Union were released from jail once the Federation fell apart?
Did you know that the Argentine telenovela Viudas e hijos del Rock and Roll is Paola Barrientos's first television appearance in a lead role?
Did you know that the California Diamond Jubilee half dollar depicts a man panning for gold, but itself contains only silver and copper?
Did you know that the film Michael, now in production, is about former gay activist Michael Glatze (played by James Franco), who denounced homosexuality following a health scare and became a Christian pastor?
Did you know that the radical PUNGA party was the sole force in Gabon that called for a "No" vote in the 1958 French constitutional referendum?
Did you know that Achille Pierre Deffontaines, who died on 26 August 1914, was the youngest general in France when promoted in 1913?
Did you know that Chicken Licken, the "largest non-American-owned fried chicken franchise in the world", uses a secret recipe bought in Texas for $1,000?
Did you know that German para-alpine skier Anna-Lena Forster won a silver medal at the 2014 Winter Paralympics by being one of the only two athletes to complete a race?
Did you know that Hkonmaing I, the saopha of Onbaung–Hsipaw, was the only steadfast ally of King Narapati II of Ava for over twenty years in Ava's wars against its former vassal states?
Did you know that Marshall Field and Levi Leiter, co-founders of Marshall Field & Co., were both once partners with John V. Farwell at John V. Farwell & Co.?
Did you know that a migration to Russia in 1752 led by Jovan Šević was described in a novel by Miloš Crnjanski?
Did you know that conductor Michael Zearott participated on a 1980s musical tour organized by Francis Ford Coppola?
Did you know that the Constitution of Tonga stipulates that the kingdom's flag can never be changed?
Did you know that the U. S. Navy's Bureau of Medicine and Surgery is the last of the original Navy bureaus still in existence?
Did you know that the sternwheeler Eva illegally hauled dynamite through Southern Oregon, in boxes labeled as containing bacon?
Did you know that 28-year-old Ferhat Akbaş was appointed head coach of the Turkey women's national volleyball team and won the 2014 Women's European Volleyball League?
Did you know that Bernard Perlin created some of the best-known World War II propaganda produced by America's Office of War Information?
Did you know that Ernst Deutsch won the Volpi Cup for best actor at the 1948 Venice Film Festival for his role in The Trial?
Did you know that Olympic footballer Kristian Krefting served as a liaison officer with British forces fighting in the 1940 Norwegian Campaign?
Did you know that a single village churchyard contains the graves of George Orwell, Earl Asquith, and David Astor?
Did you know that the 18th-century Chinese merchant Puankhequa owned a firm in the Thirteen Factories district, trading with Europeans?
Did you know that the yellow-nosed cotton rat often shares the burrow of the southern pocket gopher?
Did you know that "The Blonde Bear" supervised the ransacking of black households in the 1946 Columbia Race Riot?
Did you know that Australian swimmer Mack Horton won five gold medals at the 2013 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships?
Did you know that Henry Lansdell distributed multi-lingual religious tracts and Bibles in hospitals and prisons in Siberia and central Asia?
Did you know that Mouvements d'Harmonie for wind nonet was composed by Graham Waterhouse for the 60th birthday of his father, the bassoonist William Waterhouse?
Did you know that Seth Green, a farmer's son and pioneer pisciculturist from Carthage, New York, was called the "Father of Fish Culture in North America"?
Did you know that Wei Yilin, a surgeon during the Mongol Yuan dynasty, created a suspension method for reducing dislocated joints?
Did you know that the Illinois Central Railroad's Seminole Limited was the first passenger train to provide year-round service between Chicago, Illinois and Jacksonville, Florida?
Did you know that the Rolingas are an Argentine urban tribe composed of fans of The Rolling Stones?
Did you know that the five-volume book De Materia Medica, written by Dioscorides between 50 and 70 AD (page from 6th-century edition pictured), is the precursor to all modern pharmacopoeias?
Did you know that Charlie Guy, who served in the Ambulance Corps during World War I, sent Cleveland's star halfback to the hospital with a broken shoulder and ribs in the first game of the 1920 NFL season?
Did you know that Fabien Cousteau commissioned a "Trojan shark" submarine to film a documentary on great white sharks, and recently spent 31 days living underwater?
Did you know that Hansjürgen Reinicke was chief of staff to Vice Admiral Otto Ciliax during the Channel Dash?
Did you know that both of the lead actors in the 2013 film Short Term 12 were cast through Skype?
Did you know that missing woman Holly Bobo is the cousin of country singer Whitney Duncan?
Did you know that one of Lena Nyadbi's works, Dayiwul Lirlmim, can be seen from the Eiffel Tower?
Did you know that the Global Citizenship Education approach has been supported by organizations such as UNESCO and Oxfam?
Did you know that the sinking of the British scout cruiser HMS Pathfinder by the German U-boat SM U-21 in 1914 was the first time a warship was sunk by a modern submarine?
Did you know that the world's best para-equestrian rider, Lauren Barwick, appeared on the Canadian television series Heartland?
Did you know that English biochemist Ida Maclean was the first woman on staff at the Manchester University chemistry department, and the first to be admitted to the London Chemical Society?
Did you know that Great Britain is one of the first three nations to qualify athletes for the 2016 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that Lydia Yu-Jose, who was conferred the Order of the Rising Sun for her contributions to Japanese studies in the Philippines, began her studies out of boredom with her political science classes?
Did you know that a 1921 paper by Étienne Biéler and James Chadwick was praised as "marking the birth of the strong interactions"?
Did you know that during the third kingdom of Ebla, Hadad and Ishtar became the city's most important deities?
Did you know that the Australian hit song "Polyester Girl" is about a man "pledging fidelity to a sex doll"?
Did you know that the Canal des Pangalanes on the east coast of Madagascar extends for over 645 kilometres (400 mi)*?
Did you know that the Oba River is named for the goddess Ọba, one of the wives of Shango, the Yoruba God of Thunder?
Did you know that the Sargent Bridge is one of the few early 20th-century steel truss bridges remaining in central Nebraska?
Did you know that the eponymous character of A Kitty Bobo Show was based on one of the co-creators' experience as a Korean adoptee?
Did you know that the mountain parakeet is found in the Andes at altitudes of up to 4,500 metres (14,800 ft)?
Did you know that Émilien of Nantes was decapitated by the Saracens?
Did you know that "If It Wasn't True" from countertenor Shamir's 2014 Northtown EP was called "Your Favorite Breakup Song" by Vogue and "semidissonant pulses tickled by antsy snares and hi-hats" by Dazed?
Did you know that Will White, the first Major League Baseball player to wear glasses, holds the records of 75 complete games and 680 innings pitched in one season?
Did you know that in The Almost Nearly Perfect People, Michael Booth details the popular belief among Icelanders in the possible existence of Huldufólk (elves)?
Did you know that the Coptos Decrees are the primary source for the significant powers bestowed upon the vizier Shemay, reflecting the decline of the Old Kingdom of Egypt?
Did you know that the Lake Murray Meteorite, discovered in 1933, is the largest Class IIAB octahedrite found in Oklahoma and the fifth largest found in the world?
Did you know that the one-armed American football player Eugene Neeley was selected as a member of the 1917 College Football All-America Team?
Did you know that the portrait of Captain Gilbert Heathcote by William Owen is now held in the collections of the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery?
Did you know that veterans of the South African Air Force can have their ashes interred at the South African Air Force Memorial?
Did you know that when the telecommunications entrepreneur Robert A. Brooks had his corporate headquarters built in St. Louis, the arrangement of windows spelled out "Brooks Fiber Properties" in Morse code?
Did you know that Aleksander Lesser was one of the first artists to paint scenes from modern Polish Jewish history?
Did you know that Ambrose explained in a neoplatonic sermon how death is a good thing?
Did you know that Justin Holland was an American classical guitarist, music pedagogue, community leader, and equal-rights activist for African-Americans?
Did you know that Sullivan Branch has been described as "the prettiest stream in Pennsylvania"?
Did you know that Wilhelm Filderman helped prevent the deportation of many Jews from Romania to Nazi death camps?
Did you know that a 1959 hazing death from choking on a quarter-pound piece of raw liver was the inspiration for the 1977 film Fraternity Row?
Did you know that due to the viral meme "the Ice Bucket Challenge" (example pictured), the ALS Association has received over US$100 million in donations since July 29, 2014?
Did you know that the Lundy cabbage flea beetle is found only on the small British island of Lundy, where it feeds on the endemic Lundy cabbage?
Did you know that the Zorlu Center contains Istanbul's largest performing arts center and Turkey's first Apple Store?
Did you know that the developer Zoe Quinn considered delaying the Steam release of Depression Quest following the death of Robin Williams?
Did you know that the physician Conrad Will is the namesake of Will County, Illinois?
Did you know that Jacques Guay made a cameo portrait of Louis XV of France in sardonyx?
Did you know that Ohio State Route 212 has followed the same route since 1939?
Did you know that the Byzantine Cistern of Aetius in Constantinople, once containing 250–300 million liters of water, is now a football stadium in Istanbul?
Did you know that the Warrington architect William Owen designed the first 28 houses in the model village of Port Sunlight?
Did you know that the medieval Tynnelsö Castle in Sweden was once given to a niece-in-law of Ukrainian hetman Ivan Mazepa?
Did you know that the two basic transformer constructions in common use today are based on designs described in patent applications from 1885?
Did you know that while working as a French teacher, the future Romanian art critic George Oprescu denounced the German occupation, prompting his arrest and deportation to an internment camp in Bulgaria?
Did you know that Kitty Chiller is the first woman named an Australian Chef de Mission, and in that capacity will represent that nation at the 2016 Summer Olympics?