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Did you know that Mary Howitt wrote "The Spider and the Fly" (the poem parodied in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) and 120 other books, and translated Hans Christian Anderson?
Did you know that Nathaniel Butter published the first English newspaper?
Did you know that Naval Aircraft Factory PN flying boats were a series of US patrol aircraft in the 1920s and 1930s?
Did you know that R. C. Evans, an apostle in the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, became the leader of a schismatic sect in 1918 after concluding that Joseph Smith, Jr. was a false prophet?
Did you know that Richard Honeck, an American murder convict, was freed after serving 64 years of a life sentence, reputedly the longest prison term which ended in parole?
Did you know that Russian pastor Gennadi Kryuchkov led his illegal Baptist organisation for 20 years in the USSR while hiding from the KGB?
Did you know that Singaporean Venerable Ho Yuen Hoe worked nineteen-hour days hairdressing for nearly thirty years, and used the money to open a nursing home at age 61?
Did you know that Sting won a Grammy Award for the 1980 The Police instrumental "Behind My Camel" (as a band member) even though he didn't play on it, hated it, and even buried the tape of it in a garden?
Did you know that a tasting room for Twisted Oak Winery in Murphys, California is located in a building that was once the childhood home of Albert Abraham Michelson, the first American to win a Nobel Prize in Physics?
Did you know that both ancient and modern examples of Roman brick have similar proportions?
Did you know that in the landmark decision United States v. Oppenheimer, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the common law principle of res judicata applies to criminal cases?
Did you know that the 1½ km long Odori Park which bisects the Japanese city of Sapporo was originally intended as the city's main street?
Did you know that the Akhtala monastery was originally an Armenian Apostolic monastery that was converted into an Eastern Orthodox monastery in the 1200s?
Did you know that the EPA's lead and copper rule restricts allowable lead levels in drinking water to 15 parts per billion?
Did you know that the Espoo Cathedral was built as a church in the 15th century but did not become a cathedral until 2004?
Did you know that the Michelsberg culture of Neolithic Central Europe is known for its tulip-shaped pottery?
Did you know that the National Bike Registry is a database in the United States that has helped to identify and return stolen bicycles and scooters to their rightful owners since 1984?
Did you know that the cuisine of Gibraltar includes Maltese, Genoese and Portuguese influences?
Did you know that the first Swedish alphabet book, the Runa ABC, was mainly intended to teach the runic alphabet in an attempt to supplant the Latin one?
Did you know that the first ever Ranji Trophy cricket match, played in the year 1933 between Mysore and Madras teams, is the only game in the history of the Ranji Trophy to have been completed in a single day?
Did you know that the idea of spoofing Soviet radars' blip-to-scan ratio led to the design of the Convair KINGFISH and Lockheed A-12 high-speed aircraft?
Did you know that whether Gaius Stertinius Xenophon, a Roman physician, was involved in the death of Claudius is debated to this day?
Did you know that 16th century Scottish Bishop of Ross Henry Sinclair was simultaneously Lord President of the Court of Session, and was succeeded in that office by his brother, John Sinclair, Bishop of Brechin?
Did you know that English clergyman Ralph Tollemache gave his many children increasingly eccentric names, such as that of British Army officer Captain Leone Sextus Denys Oswolf Fraudatifilius Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellana Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache?
Did you know that English opera singer and actress Florence Perry was best known for her performances with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in the late 19th century?
Did you know that Godfrey Howitt had to wait over ten years for his family to visit him in Victoria and in the same year he also played host to three Pre-Raphaelite artists?
Did you know that Lake Karla is the only lake in the plain of Thessaly?
Did you know that Nellie Farren was best known for her roles as the "principal boy" in burlesques at the Gaiety Theatre in London?
Did you know that Pennsylvania's Kinzua Bridge (remnants pictured) was the world's longest and tallest railroad bridge when built in 1882, became a state park in 1970, and was knocked down by a tornado in 2003?
Did you know that Simon Girty's son Mike called Potawatomi chiefs Waubonsee and Shabbona cowards when they opposed Sauk Chief Black Hawk in the 1832 Black Hawk War?
Did you know that South African rugby player Jannie du Plessis is both a physician and professional athlete?
Did you know that a dispute about S$60 has led to a court appeal amounting to over S$120,000 in legal costs?
Did you know that an Ivorian air attack in 2004 which killed 9 and wounded 37 French soldiers on a UN peacekeeping mission in Côte d'Ivoire prompted a retaliation that annihilated the Air Force of Côte d'Ivoire on the same day?
Did you know that construction of the Brussels-Charleroi Canal was ordered several times over nearly 400 years before work finally began in 1827?
Did you know that in his book James the Brother of Jesus, Robert Eisenman contends that the Twelve Apostles were in fact an artificially expanded replacement of the factual smaller circle of the brothers of Jesus?
Did you know that moot hills in Scotland were mostly artificial mounds built as traditional meeting places for de facto lairdly courts and courts of law?
Did you know that most land south of latitude 40°S is part of the Antarctic Floristic Kingdom, with plant species that remain closely related despite their physical separation, dating back to the prehistoric southern hemisphere supercontinent of Gondwana?
Did you know that segregated seating known as ghetto ławkowe ("ghetto desks" or "ghetto benches") were introduced in Polish universities in the late 1930s, primarily for Jewish students?
Did you know that the 13th century Prussian Crusade commanded by Hermann Balk led to the conquest and gradual Christianization of the Old Prussians by the Teutonic Knights?
Did you know that the Basilica of Our Lady of Good Health is one of the most frequented religious sites in India, drawing nearly 2 million pilgrims annually?
Did you know that the Ephraim Smith House is the only unaltered Greek Revival rural house in Kane County, Illinois?
Did you know that the Fehr Round Barn, the Otte Round Barn and the Harbach Round Barn are three of 21 round barns that were built in Stephenson County, Illinois during the early 20th century?
Did you know that the John Hay Library at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island includes three books bound in human skin?
Did you know that the Susukino district was established as a red-light district in Sapporo, Japan in 1871 to keep labourers in Hokkaidō?
Did you know that "The fate of the language", a radio lecture in Welsh by Saunders Lewis on February 13, 1962, was the catalyst for the formation of the pressure group Welsh Language Society?
Did you know that 17th century London printer Nicholas Okes printed the first quartos of Shakespeare's King Lear and Othello?
Did you know that Colonel William H. Wilbur of the United States Army received the Medal of Honor for attempting to arrange an armistice with Vichy French forces in Casablanca and then leading an assault on an artillery battery during Operation Torch?
Did you know that Emir Rodríguez Monegal had a cameo in Jorge Luis Borges's 1949 short story The Other Death?
Did you know that Finnish-American Klaus Nordling is best known for his work on comic books, including the 1940s masked crimefighter "Lady Luck"?
Did you know that Friedrich Hayek's assertion that price fluctuations are an essential part of the economy was initially rejected by his peers?
Did you know that Isaac Jefferson was a valued slave at U.S. President Thomas Jefferson's Monticello plantation?
Did you know that Mir Geribert defied the Count of Barcelona for nearly two decades in the 11th century, even claiming the title of Prince of Olèrdola?
Did you know that Outhwaite Park in Auckland, New Zealand, is named after early settlers, the Outhwaite family?
Did you know that Sloan’s Urania (Urania sloanus), a Jamaican day flying moth of the Uraniidae family, was last reported in 1894 or 1895?
Did you know that St. Trudpert's Abbey, a Benedictine monastery in Münstertal in the southern Black Forest, was plundered during the Peasants' War and destroyed by the Swedes during the Thirty Years' War?
Did you know that Tyolet is an anonymous 13th century Breton lai in Francien which shares elements with Chrétien de Troyes' Le Conte du Graal?
Did you know that U.S. President Ronald Reagan timed his first proclamation of National Sanctity of Human Life Day to coincide with the anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision in the Roe v. Wade abortion case?
Did you know that a person must be deemed competent to receive the death penalty in order to be executed, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Ford v. Wainwright?
Did you know that after his release from prison, Laurence McKeown, a former volunteer in the Provisional IRA who took part in the 1981 Irish hunger strike, earned a Ph.D. from Queen's University Belfast and co-founded the Belfast Film Festival?
Did you know that after the 1832 Native American attack at Ament's Cabin, a 16 year old boy was sent to Hennepin, Illinois by horseback for help?
Did you know that despite a Nazi ban on all sports, soccer matches with hooliganism still occurred in Poland?
Did you know that early Seattle real estate developer George Kinnear served as the Captain of the "Home Guard" that put down the city's Anti-Chinese riots of 1885–1886?
Did you know that future space tourists may use the Quasi Universal Intergalactic Denomination (Quid) as currency when traveling?
Did you know that in 2000, Tony Blair established a commission to review how the British co-operative movement could be modernized?
Did you know that railroad water stops contributed to the development of bass fishing in the 19th century United States?
Did you know that the Hillsboro Police was the first law enforcement agency in Oregon to collect demographic statistics from traffic stops to combat racial profiling?
Did you know that the Michigan Wolverines are college football's most victorious program by total wins and percentage?
Did you know that the Züschen tomb and the Lohra tomb in Hesse, Germany, are prehistoric gallery graves belonging to the Late Neolithic Wartberg culture?
Did you know that the megalithic Altendorf tomb in Hesse, Germany contains bones from at least 235 individuals from the New Stone Age?
Did you know that 'Dus-rong Mang-po-rje acceded to the Tibetan throne in AD 676, when he was only six or seven years old?
Did you know that Ann Moore - the fasting woman from Tutbury was actually from Rosliston in Derbyshire and she had not eaten "for nearly five years"?
Did you know that Astronomische Nachrichten, founded by H. C. Schumacher in 1821, is the world's oldest extant astronomical journal?
Did you know that C.W.W. Kannangara, Sri Lanka's first Minister of Education, made education free for all children in the country?
Did you know that Clarence W. Wigington, the first African American municipal architect, designed four buildings in two cities that are now listed on the National Register of Historic Places?
Did you know that Ethiopian Abebe Aregai saved his resistance from defeat by repeatedly misleading the Italian occupiers into thinking he was about to join their side?
Did you know that Gavrinis, an island in the Gulf of Morbihan off the coast of Brittany, France, has a rich abundance of megalithic art from the New Stone Age?
Did you know that Joe Keenan's 2006 novel My Lucky Star won the Thurber Prize for American Humor in 2007?
Did you know that Joe Mitty launched the first Oxfam charity shop in the United Kingdom, in Oxford in 1949?
Did you know that Quentin L. Cook is the latest member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles?
Did you know that Rizwanur Rahman was charged with abducting his wife by West Bengal police after her father disapproved of the marriage?
Did you know that Vernice Armour was the first female African-American combat pilot in U.S. military history?
Did you know that William Wordsworth's poem "She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways", an ode to loneliness and loss, is more concerned with his own emotions on the death of an unrequited love, than with the death itself?
Did you know that the "van" in the name of German composer Ludwig van Beethoven is a remnant of his Flemish ancestry?
Did you know that the 1832 capture and execution of Lucy and James Sample by burning was one of several minor attacks of the Black Hawk War?
Did you know that the 1945 sinking of USS Eagle 56 was classified as a boiler explosion until 2001 when historical evidence convinced the Navy to reclassify it as a combat loss due to enemy action?
Did you know that the Broomfield Rowhouse in Omaha, Nebraska was designed for a 1909 competition sponsored by Good Housekeeping magazine?
Did you know that the Gagarin's Start rocket launch site at Baikonur Cosmodrome was used for over 400 space missions, including the world's first artificial satellite and the first human spaceflight?
Did you know that the Great Wall of China has impacted the process of evolution in plants?
Did you know that the Mona Lisa is named for Lisa del Giocondo?
Did you know that the National Mint of Jubia was created in an attempt to counter a shortage of coin production in Spain during the Peninsular War?
Did you know that the U.S. state of Oregon has a rail network of over 2,400 miles?
Did you know that the Vincent Thomas Bridge was named after Vincent Thomas, a California State Assembly politician, in honor of his foresight and work during its construction?
Did you know that the reconstruction of the Saalburg, Germany's most completely reconstructed Roman fort, began under Kaiser Wilhelm II?
Did you know that Chinua Achebe's novel A Man of the People described a coup d'état so similar to the real circumstances of Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi's rise to power in Nigeria that Achebe was suspected of knowing about the coup in advance?
Did you know that Dutch abstract artist Jules de Goede described his art by saying "A reflection of the world like it visually appears is not quite enough ... I try to show what is invisible"?
Did you know that Jenna Bush's book Ana's Story, about a young woman with AIDS, has been criticized for not taking a stand on her father U.S. President George W. Bush's policies toward United Nations AIDS programs?
Did you know that John William Waterhouse's 1888 painting The Lady of Shalott, based on Alfred Tennyson's 1832 poem, portrays the Lady sailing towards Camelot and certain death?
Did you know that Peter Paul Rubens produced a series of paintings depicting episodes from Marie de' Medici's life for the Luxembourg Palace in Paris?
Did you know that former mayor of San Jose, California Ernie Renzel was called the "Father of San Jose International Airport" for his work in establishing the city's first airport?
Did you know that in Orangeville, Illinois, four of the five Registered Historic Places: Union House, Masonic Hall, People's State Bank, and Central House are all within three blocks of each other?
Did you know that in the post-World War I business slump, Chicago meat packing magnate J. Ogden Armour lost a million dollars a day for 130 days?
Did you know that least-squares spectral analysis is a method for estimating a frequency spectrum, based on a least squares fit between data and trigonometric functions?
Did you know that legally, a Mett, a preparation of minced pork popular in Germany, is not allowed to contain more than 35% fat?
Did you know that physicians have tried using Coca-Cola to disintegrate food stuck in the esophagus?
Did you know that the 1673 history of Cheshire by Sir Peter Leycester questioned Amicia Mainwaring's legitimacy, leading to a "paper war" of 15 pamphlets with the Mainwaring family?
Did you know that the Indo-Burma barrier, a 1,624 kilometer-long barrier between India and Burma, is being built to curtail gunrunning and illicit drug trafficking?
Did you know that the Niedermünster in Regensburg was the wealthiest and most influential house of canonesses in Bavaria?
Did you know that the Orthodox cave monastery in Bakota, Ukraine is said to have been founded by St. Anthony of Kiev?
Did you know that the Shrapnel Valley Cemetery at Gallipoli is named after the distinctive sound produced by shrapnel in the area?
Did you know that the Solarium Augusti in ancient Rome was the largest sundial in history?
Did you know that the academic journal African Affairs was first published to commemorate the travels of the explorer Mary Kingsley?
Did you know that the events surrounding the lynching of Joe Coe in Omaha, Nebraska in 1891 are said to foreshadow the lynching of Willy Brown 28 years later?
Did you know that the first ever Representative Assembly in 19th century British India was formed in the Kingdom of Mysore?
Did you know that the government of Burmese Prime Minister U Nu was saved from a parliamentary no confidence vote in June 1957 by the communist Burma Workers and Peasants Party?
Did you know that the tidewater glacier cycle describes the centuries-long cycle of alternating advances and retreats of fjord-carving glaciers terminating in tidewater?
Did you know that the works of poet Frank Messina include responses to the September 11, 2001 attacks, and poems about the New York Mets?
Did you know that when John Sands excavated a ~2,000 year old building on the remote Scottish island of St Kilda he unearthed tools that the 1877 residents recognised?
Did you know that Adriana Pirtea lost the 2007 Chicago Marathon to Berhane Adere when Adere slipped down the side of the street and crossed outside of the finish-line tape?
Did you know that Bashful Brother Oswald took his stage name so that it would appear that an unmarried female member of his band had a family member accompanying her?
Did you know that Chapter XVI of the United Nations Charter declares that if there is a conflict between the UN Charter and any other treaty, the Charter will prevail?
Did you know that Daniel Theron formed a military bicycle corps for the Boer Army, leading British Frederick Roberts to put a £1,000 reward on his head?
Did you know that Hema Sardesai is the only Indian singer to have won the Grand Prix award at the International Pop Song Festival in Germany?
Did you know that Ipi Tombe, a Thoroughbred racehorse, was sold for the equivalent of US$30 and went on to earn more than $1.5m in races on three continents?
Did you know that Jack Daniels, a New Mexico politician, gave out Jack Daniel's whiskey at campaign events?
Did you know that Mummadi Krishnaraja Wodeyar, the king of the Kingdom of Mysore in India, was also a collector and an inventor of board games?
Did you know that Rembrandt cut his 1661 painting The Conspiracy of Claudius Civilis (detail pictured) to a quarter of its original size for easier sale?
Did you know that Seattle's Ballard Carnegie Library remains standing 44 years after it was sold, despite experts' claims that it would not survive an earthquake?
Did you know that Wilf Wild was the first Manchester City manager to win the League Championship?
Did you know that William E. Metzger opened one of the United States' first automobile dealerships and co-organized Cadillac Motor Car Co?
Did you know that archaeological finds from the German Glauberg plateau include a life-sized statue of a warrior dating from around 500 BC?
Did you know that before becoming Prime Minister of the Central African Republic, Barthélemy Boganda was a Roman Catholic priest and a member of the French National Assembly?
Did you know that during the St. John's University strike of 1966–7, Jewish professor Israel Kugler sought an audience with Pope Paul VI to win his support?
Did you know that former U.S. Representative Berkley Bedell left Congress in 1986 after contracting Lyme disease from a tick bite?
Did you know that gamma ray burst progenitors include massive, rapidly rotating stars that may explode as hypernovae (Eta Carinae pictured)?
Did you know that in 1948, Frank W. Mayborn, a Texas newspaper publisher, cast the tie-breaking vote to certify Lyndon B. Johnson as the Democratic party's U.S. Senate nominee?
Did you know that in the landmark case Erie v. Pap's A. M., the Supreme Court of the United States upheld an ordinance requiring some erotic dancers to wear nipple pasties and a G-string?
Did you know that the 203 BC Battle of Utica was the turning point of the Second Punic War?
Did you know that the Don Cesar beach resort in  Florida is named after the title character in William Vincent Wallace's 1845 opera Maritana?
Did you know that the New South Wales Court of Arbitration is claimed to be the first court devoted to resolving labour disputes in the world?
Did you know that the Randy Van Horne Singers performed the theme songs for many classic Hanna-Barbera cartoons, including The Flintstones and The Jetsons?
Did you know that the U.S. Forest Service airtanker scandal resulted in millions of dollars' worth of military aircraft being illegally transferred to private companies?
Did you know that the megalithic Niedertiefenbach tomb in Hesse, Germany has at least ten discernible layers of burials from the New Stone Age?
Did you know that when Tungning forces under Koxinga captured Fort Zeelandia after a siege in 1662, they ended decades of European colonial rule in Taiwan?
Did you know that while Al Jaffee created the comics character Ziggy Pig, it was Stan Lee who named him?
Did you know that Amsterdam has a concentric belt of canals  around it?
Did you know that Central Asia plus Japan is an ongoing dialogue between Japan and the Central Asian republics to promote regional cooperation?
Did you know that Chicago City Council alderman Toni Preckwinkle has dissented against Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley more often than any other alderman in council votes?
Did you know that Jesse Bankston was fired as director of the Department of Hospitals for refusing to release the Louisiana Governor from involuntary commitment to a mental institution?
Did you know that Patrick Ivuti's photo finish victory in the 2007 Chicago Marathon, one of the five major marathons, was his first marathon victory?
Did you know that Polish-American historian Jerzy Jan Lerski was a member of the cichociemni, a Polish elite commando unit, during WWII?
Did you know that Saint Olaf's Church in Novgorod was a church especially for Vikings  who stayed in Novgorod, Russia?
Did you know that Wang Wanxing is the only person to have been released from a Chinese Ankang asylum to a Western country?
Did you know that Wildenstein Index Numbers are used to chronologically index works of art by specific artists?
Did you know that Zdzisław Peszkowski, one of the few Polish Army officers who survived the Katyn massacre, became a priest and preached forgiveness for the massacre's perpetrators?
Did you know that a three-horse omnibus plied briefly between Dharmatala, a  neighbourhood in Kolkata, and Barrackpore in November 1830?
Did you know that after only six games in 2007, college football player Michael Crabtree broke the record for most touchdown receptions in a freshman season?
Did you know that an American Revolution-era cannonball fired at Saint Paul's Church in Norfolk, Virginia was later reinserted into its wall?
Did you know that close studding (example pictured) of timber-framed buildings was a 15–16th century status symbol, due to its lavish use of timber?
Did you know that in 1975, British historian Marcus Binney founded a lobby group for the preservation of endangered historic buildings?
Did you know that in 1988, North Carolina politician Wendell H. Murphy was awarded the Order of the Long Leaf Pine?
Did you know that itinerant minister Adam Payne was decapitated by a band of Potawatomi during the 1832 Black Hawk War?
Did you know that literary magazine Mundo Nuevo had to be abandoned by its founder because of a CIA scandal?