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Did you know that a Bristol Scout from the British aircraft carrier Vindex made the first interception of an airship by a carrier-based aircraft on 2 August 1916 when it attacked a Zeppelin with explosive Ranken darts?
Did you know that between 1933 and 1935, American blues and boogie-woogie pianist and singer Walter Roland recorded around fifty songs for Banner Records?
Did you know that conservative theologians believe the Confession of 1967 radically changed how the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) interpreted the Bible?
Did you know that despite numerous proposed changes to the Constitution of American Samoa, voters in today's constitutional referendum cannot vote on each of them individually?
Did you know that newly hatched Aylesbury ducks were traditionally fed on toast, boiled eggs, rice, beef liver, greaves and boiled horses or sheep?
Did you know that one of the 62 churches preserved by the Churches Conservation Trust in South West England is currently used as a circus skills school?
Did you know that the 1964 BSA A65 Rocket motorcycle had a top speed of 108 mph and was sold as the fastest motorcycle being produced by BSA?
Did you know that the British Engineerium, created by a steam enthusiast who started with £300, was later bought for £3 million by another enthusiast?
Did you know that the Matengo people are believed to have lived in southern Tanzania's Matengo Highlands since the Iron Age?
Did you know that the Sanctuary of Atotonilco in Guanajuato, Mexico, has been called the Sistine Chapel of Mexico?
Did you know that the Yale Bulldogs football team (mascot pictured) has won 27 national championships and ranks second in wins in college football history?
Did you know that the children's book Don't Forget the Bacon! was used in an education case study teaching students about reliability of spoken language?
Did you know that the first Principal of Federico Errázuriz Regional Institute was José Kuhl, a Pallottine priest from Limburg, Germany?
Did you know that the organ case in St Michael and All Angels Church, Brownsover, Warwickshire, was originally made for St John's College, Cambridge?
Did you know that the porch of St Swithun's Church, Brookthorpe, Gloucestershire, contains a wall plate with a chronogram hiding the date of the execution of Charles I?
Did you know that three of the venues used for the 1956 Winter Olympics went on to appear in the 1981 James Bond film For Your Eyes Only?
Did you know that Betty S. Murphy was the first woman to serve on and the first woman chair of the U.S. National Labor Relations Board, and the first woman to lead the Dept. of Labor's Wage and Hour Division?
Did you know that Frankism, an 18th-century movement derived from Judaism, maintained that the best way to emulate God—and one's most important personal responsibility—was to transgress every taboo?
Did you know that Holland Island, currently underwater at high tide, used to be one of the largest inhabited islands in the Chesapeake Bay?
Did you know that James Bond's leap from the 220 m (720 ft) high Contra Dam in the 1995 film GoldenEye was voted in 2002 as the best film stunt ever?
Did you know that Olga Ivinskaya, the mistress of Boris Pasternak, was the inspiration for the heroine of Dr. Zhivago?
Did you know that R&B singer Tobi Lark's most successful recording was issued under a different name, became very popular in Wigan, and has recently been compared to a Shakespeare sonnet?
Did you know that Thomas Barrie, found guilty in 1538 of spreading rumours about Henry VIII of England, had his ears cut off while in the pillory and later died from shock?
Did you know that a typhoid outbreak was caused by a church meeting in Monark Springs, Missouri?
Did you know that alternative rock band Klaxons' records have charted in multiple countries worldwide?
Did you know that before departing from Kraków for his victorious Battle of Vienna against the Ottoman Empire, king Jan III Sobieski said his final prayers at the Carmelite Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary?
Did you know that by 2001, there were over 1,000 research studies regarding the children's television show Sesame Street's efficacy, impact, and effect on American culture?
Did you know that clarinetist Margot Leverett started a band that fuses bluegrass music with the traditional Jewish musical style called klezmer?
Did you know that despite suffering from an injured fist, Indian boxer Shiva Thapa won a silver medal at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics?
Did you know that graphic designer S. Neil Fujita created iconic covers for such books as Truman Capote's In Cold Blood and Mario Puzo's The Godfather?
Did you know that in 1859, ex-Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California David S. Terry killed U.S. Senator David C. Broderick in a duel?
Did you know that industrialist and inventor William Edenborn once tried to use monkeys to harvest cotton on his experimental farm in Louisiana?
Did you know that one of the Fénix capsules (Fénix 2 capsule pictured) was used for the rescue of 33 miners trapped underground, in the San José Mine of Copiapó, Chile?
Did you know that over 110 people were killed when SS Vestris sank in 1928?
Did you know that some leading botanists believe that Afghanistan is the birthplace of pomegranate cultivation?
Did you know that the Adaptive Vehicle Make program plans to use crowdsourcing and an open source design to develop an infantry fighting vehicle (concept pictured) within just 30 months?
Did you know that the Mysterious Bird of Ulieta has variously been considered a thrush, a starling and a honeyeater?
Did you know that the first church service in the village of Alliance, Alberta was held in a pool hall, with most of the congregation seated on pool tables?
Did you know that the largest ethnic group in Makambako, Tanzania, is the Kinga?
Did you know that the two earliest aboriginal title cases decided by the U.S. Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Marshall were examples of collusive litigation?
Did you know that the venue for the 1960 Summer Olympic marathon event included the Appian Way, finished at the Arch of Constantine, and was lit at night by Italian soldiers holding torches?
Did you know that women constitute more than 75% of the actual population of Bawean island?
Did you know that "The Ballad of Molly Mogg" was "writ by two or three men of wit" – John Gay, Alexander Pope and Dean Swift – while sheltering from a storm?
Did you know that 10 players from the 1902 "Point-a-Minute" Michigan football team, which outscored opponents 644–12, became head coaches?
Did you know that Apple introduced Game Sprockets in 1996 to improve game development on the Mac OS, but cancelled development only a year later?
Did you know that Charles Darwin experienced the 1835 Concepción earthquake, describing the effects of both the earthquake and the subsequent tsunami?
Did you know that Emery Point Light, an active lighthouse at Larrakeyah Barracks, near Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, was the only navigational aid to remain functional in the path of Cyclone Tracy?
Did you know that Fidel Castro and Che Guevara first met in Colonia Tabacalera, Mexico City?
Did you know that Michele Bachmann and Tom Emmer will appear in My War, a documentary about the Christian youth ministry You Can Run But You Cannot Hide International?
Did you know that Nick Leggett, the Mayor of Porirua who succeeded Jenny Brash, is currently the youngest mayor in New Zealand?
Did you know that Peter Bossman, born in Ghana, has been elected by the people of Piran to become Slovenia's first black mayor?
Did you know that Sandrine Salerno, current mayor of Geneva, Switzerland, is the daughter of a French mother and an Italian father?
Did you know that Troughman is mythically famous in Sydney, Australia, for lying down in urinals?
Did you know that all three albums by Brooke Fraser debuted at number one on the New Zealand Albums Chart?
Did you know that at M-1 Global's Challenge XXI event, Artiom Damkovsky defeated Mairbek Taisumov to become their inaugural Lightweight MMA Champion and Guram Gugenishvili defeated Kenny Garner (who was replacing the injured Maxim Grishin) for their inaugural Heavyweight Championship?
Did you know that following a sexist joke by a political opponent, Ontario Member of Provincial Parliament Lisa MacLeod wrote the cookbook I’d Rather Be Baking Cookies?
Did you know that historian Gary Clayton Anderson describes the white man's advance into Texas in the 19th century as ethnic cleansing of the American Indians?
Did you know that in 1883 St Mary's Church, Shipton Solars, Gloucestershire, was being used as a cow shed?
Did you know that in 1979 Taunton Town F.C. moved from the Southern section of the Southern Football League to the Midlands section due to the opening of the M5 motorway?
Did you know that prior to becoming Commissioner of the Northwest Territories, George Tuccaro anchored the first daily current affairs television show in Canada's north?
Did you know that soprano Christiane Kohl appeared at the Bayreuth Festival as the Rhinemaiden Woglinde in both Das Rheingold and Götterdämmerung?
Did you know that soprano Myrna Sharlow once upstaged acclaimed opera singer Mary Garden in a performance of a minor role at the Boston Opera House?
Did you know that the National Supercomputing Center of Tianjin houses the world's fastest supercomputer?
Did you know that the Wittenberg Tigers from Springfield, Ohio, have won more games than any other Division III college football team?
Did you know that the idea behind "Pavor Nocturnus", a second season episode of the Canadian television series Sanctuary came from the 2007 film I Am Legend?
Did you know that the phonomotor, patented by Thomas Edison in 1878 and powered only by the human voice, could drill a hole in a board?
Did you know that various authors speculate that the Byzantine aristocratic Phokas family are of Arab, ancient Roman, Armenian or Georgian origin?
Did you know that with 800,347 inhabitants as of 2010, Tirana County is the most populated County of Albania?
Did you know that All-Star pitcher Oral Hildebrand led Butler University to the 1929 national championship in basketball?
Did you know that Anglo-Saxon nobleman Ælfric Cild married into the powerful family of the ealdorman of Mercia, and succeeded him in office before being expelled by the end of two years?
Did you know that Erika Forster-Vannini, Chair of the Swiss Senate, is one of three women who hold the three highest Swiss political offices?
Did you know that Kenyan runner Benjamin Kiptoo set a course record of 2:07:54 at the 2010 Chuncheon Marathon?
Did you know that Reinhard Mohn took what was left of his family's publishing company (its premises demolished by Allied bombing in World War II) and turned it into the sixth-largest media conglomerate in the world?
Did you know that Samangan (Aybak), the capital of Samangan Province, lies on the Khulm River?
Did you know that Second World War aviator Ronald Cuthbert Hay is the only Royal Marine fighter ace?
Did you know that Sir Nicholas Fuller was imprisoned for heresy after describing the Court of High Commission as "under jurisdiction not of Christ but of anti-Christ"?
Did you know that The Mark Levin Show is the fourth most-listened-to radio program in the United States, with over 8.5 million listeners?
Did you know that United States security assistance to the Palestinian Authority for the 2010 fiscal year was US$100 million?
Did you know that Wallace Wilkerson declined to be executed by decapitation in Utah Territory, and instead took up to 27 minutes to die because the firing squad missed his heart?
Did you know that actor Dax Shepard received strong reviews for both his comedic and dramatic performance in "No Good Deed", an episode of the NBC series Parenthood?
Did you know that after finishing his National Football League career with the Atlanta Falcons, Bob Adams became a Church of Scientology vice president and spokesperson?
Did you know that after the Third Anglo-Afghan War in 1919, Amir Amanullah announced Afghanistan's independence at the Id Gah Mosque in Kabul?
Did you know that even though Simeon I of Bulgaria burned the Church of St. Mary of the Spring near the Byzantine capital Constantinople, his son Peter married the daughter of Romanos I Lekapenos there three years later?
Did you know that in 1962, Texas A&M University professor J. Milton Nance wrote a regional history of Bryan, Texas?
Did you know that in the 2008 Nunavut general election, candidate Allan Rumbolt achieved the lowest winning plurality of any candidate in any electoral district?
Did you know that juvenile balloon sharks are preyed upon by the coelacanth?
Did you know that several MPs have signed an Early Day Motion to stop hunters from killing wild animals in Britain after the supposed death of the Emperor of Exmoor, a red stag (Cervus elaphus)?
Did you know that soprano Janis Martin appeared at the Zurich Opera as Isolde in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde?
Did you know that the "strategy New Haven itself had pioneered to fight North Haven's mall" was used against the New Haven Galleria by the neighboring city of Milford 20 years later?
Did you know that the Berlin Airlift Monument in Platz der Luftbrücke, Berlin, has an exact counterpart reaching towards it at Frankfurt Airport and a smaller replica at Celle Air Base?
Did you know that the Diggers & Dealers conference is so popular that hotel rooms in Kalgoorlie, Australia, are booked up two years in advance?
Did you know that the Harvard Crimson football team (home stadium pictured) has won 12 national championships and is the eighth winningest team in NCAA Division I football history?
Did you know that the collection of the Arizona Mining and Mineral Museum includes a specimen of native copper that is 8 ft (2.4 m) long?
Did you know that the most massive known neutron star is approximately 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) in diameter, but has a mass twice that of the Sun?
Did you know that two Soviet speed skaters tied for first place and won gold in the same event at the 1956 Winter Olympics?
Did you know that upon being elected Mayor of Regina, Saskatchewan, Douglas R. Archer moved to eliminate the city's business tax?
Did you know that voice artist P. C. Ramakrishna acted in the 1969 Madras Players theatre production The Crucible?
Did you know that B.B. King and Eric Clapton won a Grammy Award in 2000 for their collaborative album Riding with the King?
Did you know that Bach used the first movement of his Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 as a Sinfonia for his cantata Falsche Welt, dir trau ich nicht, BWV 52?
Did you know that Canadian pioneer Susan Louisa Moir Allison was the first European to report a sighting of Ogopogo, a cryptid lake monster?
Did you know that Chamaegigas intrepidus ("intrepid dwarf giant") is a tiny aquatic plant that can thrive in the desert?
Did you know that Lai Pak-Hoi founded the first Chinese-owned film production company in Hong Kong, the Minxin Film Company?
Did you know that March 13, 2001, was named "Ronnie McCollum Day" in Shreveport, Louisiana, to honor the basketball player of that name?
Did you know that Polly Rosenbaum's accomplishments in her 45 years in Arizona's state legislature included eliminating spittoons and miniskirted pages from the state House of Representatives?
Did you know that Reimar Schefold of Leiden University lived among the Sakuddei of Siberut who believe that everything has its own spirit, free to wander as it wishes?
Did you know that Sirocco, an endangered flightless parrot, gained fame when he was caught on video attempting to mate with the back of a zoologist's head?
Did you know that Willie Jackson is the Atlantic Sun Conference's all-time leading scorer in men's basketball?
Did you know that World War II aviator William Atkinson is the highest scoring fighter ace of the Royal Canadian Navy and the last ace from The Commonwealth?
Did you know that a klotok is a type of Indonesian "motorized gondola"?
Did you know that aviator Janet Bragg was the first African-American woman to hold a Commercial Pilot Licence?
Did you know that during the Yom Kippur War, the Israeli Air Force carried out the Syrian General Staff Headquarters Raid after northern Israel had been struck by FROGs?
Did you know that in the aftermath of the 1855 Ansei Edo earthquake large numbers of prints were produced depicting the mythological giant catfish Namazu (example pictured)?
Did you know that mezzo-soprano opera singer Martha Lipton performed 401 times at the Metropolitan Opera?
Did you know that one year after Bahrain's State Security Law was abolished in 2001, Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifa pronounced Bahrain a constitutional monarchy and changed his title from amir to king?
Did you know that scholars have recommended that "Clara cell" and other medical eponyms associated with Nazi doctors or medical experiments should be replaced?
Did you know that soon after the ocean liner SS Utopia collided with the battleship HMS Anson, resulting in 564 deaths near Gibraltar in 1891, the partially submerged wreckage was involved in another collision?
Did you know that the 1915 film The Incorrigible Dukane is the oldest surviving movie starring John Barrymore?
Did you know that the Blair-Dunning House in Bloomington was the home of the only politician to hold every elected legislative and executive office in Indiana's government?
Did you know that the Flying Duck Orchid was first collected in 1803 at the site of the present day Sydney Opera House?
Did you know that the Seelbach Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky, was frequented by Al Capone, who is said to have once avoided police by escaping through secret tunnels in the hotel?
Did you know that the controversial Iraq De-Ba'athification policy banned anyone affiliated with the Ba'ath Party from working in the public sector?
Did you know that the death of a zebra, while under the care of Sir Fleetwood Edwards, was said to greatly annoy Queen Victoria?
Did you know that the former Union Free School in Le Roy, New York, is now a museum devoted to Jell-O?
Did you know that the new search engine Blekko will use what The New York Times described as "Wikipedia-style policing" to weed out pages created by content farms and focus on results from trusted websites?
Did you know that when Sir Christopher Hatton, Lord Chancellor to Elizabeth I, built Holdenby House, he moved the dwellings of Holdenby village away from All Saints Church, leaving it isolated?
Did you know that when former International Lenin School worker Just Lippe fled to neutral Sweden during World War II, he was imprisoned there for a year and a half?
Did you know that 30% of the population in the Arab world is classified as overweight or obese, including 80% of adult women in Kuwait?
Did you know that Chinese sport shooter Liu Tianyou ‎won his first gold medal in the men's 10 m air rifle event at the 2006 Asian Games?
Did you know that Eber Brock Ward built the first Bessemer steel mill in the United States?
Did you know that Gee Jon became the first person in the United States to be executed in a gas chamber, after Nevada State Prison officials found that pumping the poison directly into his cell did not work?
Did you know that George Cain's book Blueschild Baby was called "the most important work of fiction by an Afro-American since Native Son" for its portrayal of "a world that only black people can fully comprehend"?
Did you know that Liang Congjie established the Friends of Nature in 1994 as the first environmental non-governmental organization to be officially recognized by the government of the People's Republic of China?
Did you know that Lorne Kusugak, a member of the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut, was a founding director of the Inuit Broadcasting Corporation, a TV network that broadcasts almost entirely in Inuktitut?
Did you know that P.E. de Josselin de Jong was the nephew of J.P.B. de Josselin de Jong, a founding father of Dutch anthropology, and that both specialized in Indonesian ethnography?
Did you know that Princess Xenia of Montenegro's refusal of marriage to Alexander I of Serbia severed diplomatic relations between their two countries?
Did you know that all eight venues of the 1964 Winter Olympics were reused when the Games returned to Innsbruck twelve years later?
Did you know that although the fungus Aseroe coccinea was characterized in 1989, its validation as a species was delayed until 2007 because the initial description was not in Latin?
Did you know that among the 85 cricketers to play first-class cricket for I Zingari were one member of the British Royal Family, three barons, one Earl, three Members of Parliament and one bishop?
Did you know that classic female blues singer Laura Smith recorded two songs about the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927?
Did you know that recreational physical activity reduces cancers but not melanoma?
Did you know that the George & Dragon pub (present building pictured) at Newton, Derbyshire, was recorded in 1577?
Did you know that the Mount Lemmon Marathon is entirely uphill and climbs over 1 mile (1.61 km) from start to finish as it follows the General Hitchcock Scenic Byway?
Did you know that the Tristan Thrush is a regular predator of the eggs and chicks of the Great Shearwater?
Did you know that the cabin of the Heli-Sport CH-7 was designed by the creator of the Lamborghini Countach, while the helicopter's frame is the work of Argentine inventor Augusto Cicaré?
Did you know that the discovery of asbestos in B5 coaches during renovation has led to a legal dispute between the Norwegian State Railways and Bombardier Transportation?
Did you know that the hemmema, turuma, pojama and udema, four types of warships designed by naval architect Fredrik Henrik af Chapman for the Swedish archipelago fleet in the 18th century, were named after provinces in Finland?
Did you know that the redevelopment of the Paddington area of London was intended to be comparable in scale to Canary Wharf?
Did you know that the rooms of the Café Rumpelmayer in the Hotel St. Moritz in New York City were designed by the German-born architect Winold Reiss?
Did you know that two Berlin U-Bahn stations, Paradestraße and Platz der Luftbrücke, have been called "Flughafen" (airport) because Hitler wanted the entrance to Tempelhof Airport moved?
Did you know that when the only known Cylindrocline lorencei died and its seeds would not germinate, it was considered extinct—but it was saved through in vitro culture of part of the seed embryo?
Did you know that John Cougar Mellencamp's number-one rock song "Lonely Ol' Night" was inspired by the 1963 Paul Newman movie Hud?
Did you know that Libertas, a biographical film about the Croatian Renaissance playwright Marin Držić, was approved for funding in 1992, but was not finished until 2006?
Did you know that Louisiana politician and timber magnate Henry E. Hardtner is known as "the father of forestry in the South"?
Did you know that Roy Skinner, head coach of the Vanderbilt Commodores men's basketball team, recruited Perry Wallace as the first African American to play varsity basketball in the Southeastern Conference?
Did you know that Sempronius Stretton, who sketched people in early Canada, was painted at the Duke of Wellington's annual banquet celebrating their victory at Waterloo?
Did you know that Syrian-born clarinetist Kinan Azmeh debuted a concerto written especially for him at the opening of the Damascus Opera House?
Did you know that Theodore Plucknett was the first ever chair of legal history at the London School of Economics?
Did you know that U.S. President George H. W. Bush nominated Alfred C. Sikes to be chairperson of the FCC instead of Sherrie Marshall because Sikes was thought to have a better relationship with Congress?
Did you know that a Mere (held by a Māori woman in picture), which was made from jade, could be used to split a man's head open?
Did you know that a Peronist hymn was sung during the 1975 civil wedding of future Argentine presidents Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández?
Did you know that after his term as acting Governor of Guam, Raymond Stone went on to become a judge on the Supreme Court of Guam?
Did you know that after the plaintiff in the lawsuit Werner Erhard vs. Columbia Broadcasting System filed a motion to dismiss the case, he mailed checks for US$100 to each of the defendants?