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Did you know that Frank Baldino, Jr. is founder and CEO of a company seeking to market its narcolepsy medication to treat jet lag?
Did you know that Greek Idol winner Valanto Trifonos failed the audition for the rival Greek talent competition The X Factor?
Did you know that Henry S. Baird, the first lawyer in territorial Wisconsin, bought a small Greek Revival former land office building to serve as his law office as he felt its style befit his position?
Did you know that Louis Kahn's design of the Richards Medical Research Laboratories at the University of Pennsylvania influenced other architects despite criticisms by scientists who work there?
Did you know that Mr. Kay of Manhattan's Upper West Side donated his barbershop interior to the Museum of the City of New York?
Did you know that Murray Farm Public School in Australia teaches various subjects bilingually in English and Japanese?
Did you know that The Double Sunrise was a non-stop, approximately 30-hour airline flight, crossing over 3,500 nautical miles (6,500 km; 4,000 mi) above the Indian Ocean during World War II?
Did you know that after the crash of a U.S. Air Force C-5 Galaxy near Saigon, Robert Macauley mortgaged his house so he could charter a Boeing 747 from Pan Am to evacuate orphans from South Vietnam?
Did you know that due to its long life cycle, the adult Great Arctic is only seen every other year?
Did you know that erythropoietin became a billion dollar business for Amgen, though its discoverer Eugene Goldwasser at the University of Chicago never profited from its development?
Did you know that minuscules 2276, 2277 and 2278 were classified twice by Gregory under numbers 815, 816 and 812 (in 1886 in Greece), and under numbers 2276, 2277 and 2278 (in 1904 in London)?
Did you know that t'aenghwa is a characteristic type of Korean Buddhist visual arts?
Did you know that the Biham-Middleton-Levine model may be the simplest model of traffic flow that has both phase transitions and self-organization?
Did you know that the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency is assisting 5pb. with the development of Robotics;Notes, their upcoming visual novel and latest entry in their science adventure series?
Did you know that the Louisiana educator John Keeny was a promoter of the New York-based Chautauqua movement?
Did you know that the first production at the Prince's Theatre in Manchester was Shakespeare's The Tempest, on 15 October 1864?
Did you know that the historic Clutts House in Wellston, Ohio, retains many of its original decorative details and structural elements despite being converted to law offices?
Did you know that the mushroom Gymnopilus maritimus is known only from collections in a very localised area of Sardinia, Italy?
Did you know that the song "When We Die As Martyrs" is performed by the Arab children's choir Birds of Paradise?
Did you know that there were multiple V-2 rocket facilities in World War II?
Did you know that Aporo, Michoacán, is part of the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, but tourism is not part of its economy?
Did you know that Bob Dylan did not perform his song "Drifter's Escape" live in concert until almost 25 years after it was released?
Did you know that Kota tribe shows M haplogroup frequency of 97%, which is one of the highest in India?
Did you know that Songgwangsa, originally founded in 867, is one of the oldest Zen temples in Korea?
Did you know that during recent renovations to the former Batavia Club building in Batavia, New York, an old safe was found that so far no one has been able to open?
Did you know that in 1964, R. B. Walden, director of the Louisiana Department of Hospitals, ordered the desegregation of his state's charity hospitals?
Did you know that in 1975, former Texas lawmaker E L Short urged that citizens be warned door-to-door of the hazards of hydrogen sulfide after the gas exploded in Denver City?
Did you know that in The Empathic Civilization, author Jeremy Rifkin argues that extending empathy to subsequently larger groups is paid for with increasing entropy in terms of environmental problems?
Did you know that naturally occurring quasicrystals can be found in the rare minerals khatyrkite and cupalite?
Did you know that the 1503 Challenge of Barletta was sparked by a French knight who insulted the Italians, having consumed too much of their local wine?
Did you know that the Bold Orion air-launched ballistic missile was the first missile ever to intercept an artificial satellite?
Did you know that the English clergyman George Edmundson worked for the British Government on the Boundary Arbitration between British Guiana and Venezuela?
Did you know that the Have Dash II (artist's concept pictured) missile was an attempt to develop a stealthy air-to-air missile?
Did you know that the Missouri Fur Company, founded in 1809, was one of the earliest American fur trade companies in St. Louis, Missouri?
Did you know that the Palace of Cortés, built more than 450 years ago in Cuernavaca, is the oldest conserved civil building in Mexico?
Did you know that the crest of the Blauberge, a mountain range in the Bavarian Alps, forms part of the border between Austria and Germany?
Did you know that the explosive chemical ascaridole (structure pictured) can be found naturally in the oil of Mexican Tea, traditionally used in Mexican cuisine to prevent flatulence?
Did you know that Charles Coolidge Parlin, the founder of the field of market research, was once a schoolteacher in the state of Wisconsin?
Did you know that Gramoz Palushi was murdered while he was celebrating the football victory of Albania over Greece?
Did you know that J. Howell Flournoy, the longest serving sheriff in the history of Caddo Parish, Louisiana, was the son and grandson of earlier sheriffs?
Did you know that Roberto de la Madrid, the first American-born governor of a Mexican state, earlier appeared in the 1959 Dennis Hopper film The Young Land, playing a character named Don Roberto de la Madrid?
Did you know that Sy Mah, who held a Guinness World Record for the most lifetime marathons, completed his first marathon in the same race in which he coached 13-year-old Maureen Wilton to a women's world record?
Did you know that The Bakersfield Californian's 1926 building gave women a public restroom in downtown Bakersfield, California?
Did you know that a critic said that landscapes by Rinaldo Cuneo (self-portrait pictured) "are the very soul and essence of California materialized in line and color"?
Did you know that pilgrims came to St. Mary's Abbey in Trim from all over Ireland to see the miraculous statue of the Blessed Virgin until it was burned in the Reformation?
Did you know that the First Baptist Church complex in Bakersfield, California, was the only religious structure of its era to survive the massive 1952 Kern County earthquake?
Did you know that the German battleship SMS Prinzregent Luitpold was the only ship of her class designed to mount a diesel engine, though it was never fitted?
Did you know that the Leviathan gas field – discovered in 2010 and located 130 kilometres (81 mi) west of Haifa, Israel, in the eastern Mediterranean Sea – is one of the world’s largest offshore gas finds of the past decade?
Did you know that the Louisiana State Rep. Cliff Ammons was the "father of Toledo Bend Lake," the largest lake both within and along the borders of Texas?
Did you know that the Museum of Mosaics in Devnya, Bulgaria, exhibits a mosaic of the gorgon Medusa which was supposed to turn away evil?
Did you know that the Stripsenjochhaus is a club hut in the Northern Alps that has been a base for some of the most famous rock climbing in the Alps?
Did you know that the U.S. Navy's Carrier Strike Group Nine is the first to deploy an entire LAMPS helicopter squadron onboard its aircraft carrier?
Did you know that the devil's matchstick supplies fixed nitrogen to the environment?
Did you know that the hydroxide ion is a natural constituent of water?
Did you know that the number of known major lineages of bacteria has more than quadrupled in the past 20 years but many of them cannot be grown in a lab?
Did you know that while in space, Apollo 11 astronauts hand canceled the die proof of a stamp designed by Paul Calle to commemorate the first manned moon landing?
Did you know that Lewis Strong Clarke established his innovative sugar plantation Lagonda in St. Mary Parish, Louisiana, and named it for a creek in Ohio?
Did you know that Saint Bernadette of Lourdes entered the convent of the Sisters of Charity of Nevers named for the seventh-century Saint Gildard, not the sixth-century Saint Gildard?
Did you know that a Tyrian purple dye can be extracted from the West African Horned Murex sea snail (shell pictured)?
Did you know that after getting his start in Hollywood creating a model of the great white shark in Jaws, special effects artist Grant McCune, as chief modelmaker for the Star Wars films, designed R2-D2?
Did you know that construction plans of the first Cape Capricorn Light, a lighthouse on Curtis Island, Queensland, failed to include a lamp room, so one had to be urgently constructed?
Did you know that fleet racing is the most common form of sailboat racing?
Did you know that in the United States some defendants chose to appear pro se because of the Perry Mason syndrome?
Did you know that instruments in Bach's cantata for Epiphany, Sie werden aus Saba alle kommen (They will all come from Sheba), have been compared to the salamiya and zurna?
Did you know that the Molasses Reef Wreck in the Turks and Caicos Islands is the earliest wreck of a European ship in the Americas to be scientifically excavated?
Did you know that the People's Republic of China is the world's second largest consumer market for luxury goods, next only to Japan?
Did you know that the Wagtail missile, upon being launched, fired retrorockets to allow the carrier aircraft to escape the effects of its own weapon?
Did you know that the Wedgwood scale was used to determine the temperature in pottery kilns?
Did you know that the award-winning novel Gould's Book of Fish is based on the life of English painter William Buelow Gould, who was transported as a convict to the penal colony of Van Diemen's Land for stealing a coat?
Did you know that the capitals of the Norman chancel arch in St Michael's Church, Burwell, Lincolnshire are carved with dancing stags and volutes?
Did you know that the dentist Pauls Dauge translated several works of Friedrich Engels into Latvian?
Did you know that the development of the Chengdu J-20 fighter aircraft may have been assisted by cyberespionage?
Did you know that the hairless half-meter parasite Helixanthera schizocalyx was discovered by lepidopterist Colin Congdon on the lookout for loranths near the summit of Mozambique's Mount Mabu?
Did you know that the inquiry into the murder of Joanna Yeates, dubbed "Operation Braid", has become one of the largest police investigations in Bristol, England?
Did you know that the rectory at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in McCartyville, Ohio, was named a historic site in 1979, just two years after it was deemed ineligible for that designation?
Did you know that Flora and Maria were the first two of nine female Christian Martyrs of Córdoba?
Did you know that Kit Villiers was a Gentleman of the Bedchamber to James I, but not to Charles I, who "would have no drunkards of his chamber"?
Did you know that Louis Gilbert, who scored all 21 points in Michigan Stadium's dedication game, was described as "the campus sheik" who "wears bear grease on his hair and dances a mean black bottom"?
Did you know that Matt Taibbi's book Griftopia has been described as a "necessary ... corrective" to the assertion that bubbles are an inevitable part of the market economy?
Did you know that R&B singer Alexa Goddard's debut chart hit, a cover of "Turn My Swag On", topped the UK Indie Chart on its second week of release?
Did you know that Steve Hanley, who played for rugby union side Sale Sharks from 1998 to 2007, scored 75 tries in the English Premiership which remains a record?
Did you know that Tom Oran was the first Native American to play Major League Baseball?
Did you know that Wallblake House is reported to be the oldest structure on the island of Anguilla, built in 1787?
Did you know that William Gullick, designer of the Coat of arms of New South Wales, had a colour photograph of his family as early as 1909?
Did you know that a hacktivist known as The Jester claims to have taken down the website of the Taliban through a denial-of-service attack?
Did you know that al-Insaniyyah, founded in 1925, was the first official Arabic communist newspaper?
Did you know that many Western scholars working in Chinese studies now receive funding from the Taiwan-based Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation?
Did you know that outdoor hockey games played in football, soccer and baseball stadiums have resulted in numerous attendance records, including a world record of 113,411 at an American college game?
Did you know that the Alpha Draco rocket, developed as part of Weapons System 199, evaluated the lifting body principle for reentry vehicles?
Did you know that the Knoxville L&N rail station had three waiting rooms: one for ladies, one for "colored" people, and a general waiting room?
Did you know that the dedication of North Stoke Church—forgotten for centuries—was accidentally rediscovered in 2007 when a researcher examined a piece of vellum in The National Archives?
Did you know that the first major rock and roll concert, 1952's Moondog Coronation Ball, was to include rhythm and blues singer Varetta Dillard, but the show was shut down before she could perform?
Did you know that the newly opened Hainan Eastern Ring Railway employed 50,000 workers, and is Hainan's largest single investment project to date?
Did you know that users of the Sinclair ZX81, a British home computer of the early 1980s, balanced cartons of cold milk on top of the case to stop it from overheating?
Did you know that 69 people were killed in 1971 when the Vickers Viscount they were flying in crashed on approach to Minangkabau International Airport, Padang, Indonesia?
Did you know that Barbara Newhall Follett, who by age fourteen had published two novels to critical acclaim, left her apartment the night of December 7, 1939, at age twenty-five, and was never seen again?
Did you know that H. A. Saintsbury met the thirteen-year-old Charlie Chaplin at the Green Room Club in 1903, to approve him for a part on stage?
Did you know that Patience and Sarah has been called the first lesbian opera?
Did you know that a reviewer wrote that Mound of Butter by Antoine Vollon looks so real that it might have been painted with butter itself?
Did you know that a wrestler was briefly declared unable to compete at the World Wrestling Federation's Fully Loaded (2000) event when he faked food poisoning?
Did you know that before being cast as Hoss Cartwright on Bonanza, Dan Blocker appeared in four episodes of John Payne's NBC western series, The Restless Gun?
Did you know that in 1929, a group of laborers discovered a 958 carat doubly truncated bipyramid sapphire near Gwebin, which sold for £13,000 to a New York dealer, who cut it into nine different sapphires?
Did you know that in 2000, a Wuhan Airlines Xian Y-7 aircraft crashed in China, killing 51 people, after it was struck by lightning?
Did you know that songwriter Marty Balin said that "Miracles", which became Jefferson Starship's biggest hit single, was originally perceived by the other band members as "pretty weird"?
Did you know that the English Springer Spaniel Buster has a specially made pen to protect it from biological attack?
Did you know that the Illinois River channel was carved out in a matter of days by the Kankakee Torrent?
Did you know that the Thomcord grape, a seedless hybrid of the Concord and Thompson Seedless grapes, underwent 17 years of testing before being declared ready for growers and gardeners?
Did you know that the hulk of the USS Wateree, stranded by an 1868 tsunami, was shifted several kilometres along the coast by an 1877 tsunami?
Did you know that the story of Winter, a dolphin with a prosthetic tail, is being made into a film?
Did you know that the tympanum of the Norman doorway of St Benedict's Church, Haltham-on-Bain, Lincolnshire, contains carvings of a Maltese cross in a circle, a fan-shaped shell, and a knot in a circle?
Did you know that there are more male snails than females in the shallow waters of Lake Alexandrina, New Zealand, and that snails are sicker in the lake's shallower rather than deeper water?
Did you know that Bach's cantata Mein liebster Jesus ist verloren, BWV 154, first performed on 9 January 1724, "contains a graphic evocation of ear drumming", according to Gardiner?
Did you know that Chateau Grand Traverse produced Michigan's first commercial ice wine and the 1987 vintage was served at the presidential inauguration of George H. W. Bush?
Did you know that Indian Maoist guerrillas killed seven prominent local members of Agragami Adivasi Samiti in Purulia District in December 2010?
Did you know that Joseph Tabarlet was made mayor of Jonesboro, Louisiana, four times, but only completed one full term?
Did you know that Neil Young scored the winning goal in the 1969 FA Cup Final?
Did you know that U.S. Rep. Albert Estopinal of Louisiana led three missions during the Civil War to transport Union prisoners to the Confederate capital, Richmond, Virginia?
Did you know that a Singapore Subordinate Court criminal case appealed to the High Court cannot be further appealed to the Court of Appeal, but questions of law can be referred to that Court for determination?
Did you know that although Juan Solano came to South America to be the bishop of Cuzco, he first joined the Spanish army and fought at the Battle of Jaquijahuana?
Did you know that during a river cruise Russian statesman Grigory Potemkin, unable to organise dinner for Catherine the Great and the Holy Roman Emperor, resorted to cooking for them himself?
Did you know that the Blue Sulphur Springs Pavilion is the only surviving building from the Blue Sulphur Springs Resort, a mineral spa visited by U.S. Presidents Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren?
Did you know that the German battleship SMS Ostfriesland was sunk by American bombers during air power tests conducted by Billy Mitchell in 1921?
Did you know that the Mikea Forest, one of the largest remaining forest blocks in southwestern Madagascar, is yet to be protected?
Did you know that the Pratt & Whitney J48 turbojet engine was originally designed by Rolls-Royce, who abandoned it in favor of a different project?
Did you know that the last will and testament of Adolf Hitler was discovered in 1945 by Arnold Weiss of the United States Army, who had come to Wisconsin as a Jewish orphan from Nazi Germany at the age of 13?
Did you know that the town of Angangueo, Mexico, was nearly moved completely because of landslides and flooding in February 2010?
Did you know that writer Daphne du Maurier lived in a house near the Fowey ferry in Bodinnick for several years?
Did you know that Daniel Bellemare, chief prosecutor for the UN's Special Tribunal for Lebanon, is also the longest-serving head of the Federal Prosecution Service in Canadian history?
Did you know that German musicologist Alfred Dürr has been called "the scholar who has done most to establish the new chronology of Bach's vocal works"?
Did you know that Heidi Løke won a gold medal with the Norwegian team at the 2010 European Women's Handball Championship, and was also selected into the all-star team as best pivot of the tournament?
Did you know that Julia Bonds was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize for leading the fight against the practice of mountaintop removal mining in the Appalachian mountain range?
Did you know that Polish athlete Edward Sarul became the first ever World Champion in the shot put in 1983 but missed the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics due to the Eastern Bloc boycott?
Did you know that a buried subfossil forest, submerged under pumice after the eruption of Taupo (c. AD 186), was discovered in Pureora Forest Park, New Zealand, in 1983?
Did you know that a wilt disease, Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. cubense, could cause the Cavendish banana to become commercially unavailable?
Did you know that a wooden stork on the façade of the Rathaus in the German town of Großbottwar nods its head when the town hall clock strikes the hour?
Did you know that as theologian to the Pontifical Household, Wojciech Giertych provides advice to the Pope on theological issues?
Did you know that demonstrators in New Delhi wore garlands made of onions to protest against the rising onion prices in India?
Did you know that despite an embargo on the sale of military aircraft due to the Spanish Civil War, the French government allowed the sale of the Farman F.480 Alizé to Spain on the grounds that they were, as built, civilian?
Did you know that first white settlers of the Town of La Sarre, in Quebec, Canada, were squatters on the land who were discovered during a survey in 1908?
Did you know that halfback Otto Carpell and ends Efton James and Curtis Redden were the three Michigan Wolverines football players killed while serving in the military during World War I?
Did you know that in the 1930s, the Indochinese Communist Party and the Vietnamese Trotskyists collaborated on the joint publication La Lutte?
Did you know that in the 1981 Pacific hurricane season, Tropical Storm Lidia caused more damage and casualties than Hurricane Norma?
Did you know that the 240-foot (73 m) clock tower on the former Union Station (top pictured) that dominates the skyline in Waterbury, Connecticut, was modeled on the Torre del Mangia in Siena, Italy?
Did you know that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Central Green Co. v. United States that the term 'flood waters' includes accidental flooding from a canal?
Did you know that there was a public outcry from onion farmers after Vincent Kosuga cornered the onion futures market?
Did you know that 101 Roundhill Crescent (pictured in foreground), in Brighton's Round Hill suburb, housed England's first hospital for the treatment of mental illness?
Did you know that 407 species of birds have been recorded in Pennsylvania (Ruffed Grouse, the state bird, pictured), including four that are extirpated and two that are extinct?
Did you know that American historian Kenneth Setton spent nearly two decades finishing his classic work The Papacy and the Levant, 1204-1571?
Did you know that British chef Gordon Ramsay, who was threatened at gunpoint whilst filming in Costa Rica, described the illegal shark fin trading in the country as "a multi-billion dollar industry"?
Did you know that Carrier Strike Group Fourteen is currently the only U.S. carrier strike group that does not have an assigned aircraft carrier or carrier air wing?
Did you know that Cornelius Dupree was cleared by DNA profiling of committing a robbery for which he served 30 years in prison, longer than any other exonerated inmate in Texas?
Did you know that E.B. Harris, former president of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, paraded an Angus calf around the trading floor to celebrate the beginning of live cattle futures trading on the exchange?
Did you know that Jacques Kallis has scored more Test centuries than any other South African cricketer?
Did you know that Janis Joplin with Big Brother and the Holding Company, The Grateful Dead, and Moby Grape performed at the Mantra-Rock Dance, a charity event for the San Francisco Hare Krishna temple?
Did you know that New Zealand MP George Macfarlan's grave was removed to make way for the Wellington Urban Motorway?
Did you know that Te Matua Ngahere is believed to be the second largest living kauri tree, and to have the biggest girth of any kauri in New Zealand?
Did you know that a song by England Dan & John Ford Coley, "It's Sad to Belong", topped the adult contemporary chart for five weeks in 1977?
Did you know that all the streets in the centre of the Auckland suburb of Henderson were once named after members of the family of Thomas Henderson?
Did you know that despite being the second youngest player at the 2011 World U-17 Hockey Challenge, Canadian forward Nathan MacKinnon finished seventh in tournament scoring?