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Did you know that Robert Seddon, captain of the first British Lions rugby team, drowned during the 1888 Australian tour in a sculling accident?
Did you know that a 1970s weather forecast of "low goat pressure" on radio station KRSB in Roseburg, Oregon, was a sure sign of rain ahead?
Did you know that actress Kate Cutler walked out of the lead role in Noël Coward's The Vortex a week before it opened in 1924?
Did you know that as a student, mathematician Audrey Terras was steered into math away from her other choice, history, by a post-Sputnik program that paid students to study mathematics?
Did you know that bacon vodka (bottle pictured) is vodka infused with bacon flavor, created based on the concept of a "meat and potatoes" pairing?
Did you know that carucage, a medieval English land tax, was first collected in 1194 in order to raise funds for the ransom of King Richard I of England?
Did you know that contrary to popular myth, Robert E. Lee's face is not carved on the back of the 1920 statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.?
Did you know that miniature pigs are bred and raised as pets and for medical research into organ transplants rather than for bacon?
Did you know that one of the ships of the Astraea-class of protected cruiser (example pictured) built in the early 1890s survived into the 1940s?
Did you know that the Charles Sumner School served as the first teachers college for African-Americans in the District of Columbia?
Did you know that the Pedrail wheel was invented in 1903 for all-terrain locomotion, and was the inspiration for H.G. Wells' short story "The Land Ironclads"?
Did you know that the Puretic power block revolutionized the technology of hauling purse seine nets on seine fishing vessels?
Did you know that the arms of a crucifix in a Barra de Navidad church broke during 1971's Hurricane Lily, earning the statue the name "Christ of the Cyclone"?
Did you know that the first class of United States Navy destroyers were designated torpedo boat destroyers?
Did you know that to prepare a bacon martini, bacon has to soak in vodka for 24 hours, before it is strained over ice and served with a bacon garnish?
Did you know that turkey bacon is used as a substitute for pork bacon at Camille's Sidewalk Cafe locations in the Middle East?
Did you know that "Ma" Newell, one of the few four-year All-Americans in college football history, was run over by a railroad engine on Christmas Eve 1897?
Did you know that Arsenal won the 1988–89 English Football League Championship title thanks to a goal scored in the last minute of the very last game?
Did you know that Daphne Anderson has played Father William, the Walrus, and the Red Queen in various productions of Alice in Wonderland?
Did you know that Greg Golson stole over 100 bases in his five years as a Philadelphia Phillies minor leaguer?
Did you know that Han dynasty politician Zhang Tang once tried and executed a rat?
Did you know that King Cnut the Great ordered the murder of  Eadric Streona and Northman, the eldest son of Leofwine, Ealdorman of the Hwicce, in 1017?
Did you know that New York's Hyde Park Reformed Dutch Church secured its original building, a union church, by growing the fastest out of the several denominations that shared it?
Did you know that Ralph Alswang designed the Westport, Connecticut, home of actor Paul Newman?
Did you know that The Cheese Store of Beverly Hills, established in 1967, carries more than 500 varieties of cheese?
Did you know that Wing Commander John Lerew, ordered to defend Rabaul against Japanese invasion in 1942, signalled headquarters the legendary gladiatorial phrase "We who are about to die salute you"?
Did you know that her controversial publication of The Woman's Bible in the 1890s effectively ended Elizabeth Cady Stanton's further influence in the women's suffrage movement?
Did you know that in a defined contribution plan, a type of retirement plan, the contributions to the account are guaranteed but the future benefits are not?
Did you know that in the 2009 Indian parliamentary election, Bangshi Badan Barman of the Greater Cooch Behar Democratic Party became the first undertrial prisoner to file candidate nomination papers in West Bengal?
Did you know that the Benner House is the sole surviving German-style vernacular home built to a one-room plan in Rhinebeck, New York?
Did you know that the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site in Derbyshire, which includes a mixture of mills and workers' housing, is considered the birthplace of the factory system?
Did you know that the Helmerich Award, an annual literary award that pays US$40,000 to an "internationally acclaimed" author, is named after the actress who played "Nurse Kelly" in the 1950 film Harvey?
Did you know that the Imperial Japanese Navy I-176 was the only Japanese submarine in the Second World War to sink one of its American counterparts?
Did you know that the Indian Star Tortoise, Sri Lanka Junglefowl, Sri Lankan Elephant, Sri Lanka Leopard and Rusty-spotted Cat are among the endangered species of the Hurulu Forest Reserve?
Did you know that the Virginia Tech Hokies, winners of the 1995 Sugar Bowl, were selected for the game only after sanctions were levied against the Miami Hurricanes?
Did you know that the country music quartet The Oak Ridge Boys reached their highest ranking in 26 years on the Billboard 200 with the release of their 2009 album The Boys Are Back?
Did you know that the last train to run on the Port Whitby and Port Perry Railway was a special passenger service to Toronto to visit the Royal Tour of 1939?
Did you know that the many optical effects apparent in Johannes Vermeer's The Lacemaker indicate that he made use of the camera obscura; an early photographical device?
Did you know that As'ad Pasha al-Azm, governor of Damascus under the Ottoman Empire for 14 years, ordered the construction of the Azm Palace and Khan As'ad Pasha?
Did you know that Donald G. Fink, later to become a prominent electrical engineer, was selected as the best orator in his county at a high school competition?
Did you know that Henri Pinault, the last Roman Catholic bishop of Chengdu, was imprisoned and expelled from China by the Communist Party of China in 1952, but retained his title until 1983?
Did you know that John Wick, who passed on information that led to an ongoing scandal about expenses of Members of the United Kingdom Parliament, once commanded the Royal Army Ordnance Corps's Mobile Bath Unit?
Did you know that Mushet steel was the first tool steel and later led to the discovery of high speed steel?
Did you know that San Pedro Atocpan hosts a festival every year devoted to mole sauce?
Did you know that before Tommy Walker became a footballer he was a champion sprinter?
Did you know that driving for Polestar Racing Group, Katherine Legge became the first woman to win an open-wheel race in North America?
Did you know that gopchang jeongol, a spicy Korean casserole made by boiling beef tripe, vegetables, and seasonings in beef broth, is a popular dish when drinking alcoholic beverages in South Korea?
Did you know that human skin flora includes roughly 1,000 species of bacteria?
Did you know that in the U.S. Supreme Court case of Ashcroft v. Iqbal, a prisoner sued Federal prison guards and their superiors alleging physical abuse?
Did you know that music producer Bill Szymczyk got started in music engineering while working on SONAR for the United States Navy?
Did you know that the Bulgarian villages of Mezek and Matochina, situated near the borders with Greece and Turkey, both have medieval castles (Matochina fortress pictured)?
Did you know that the railroad station in Dilley, Oregon, was built 23 years after the railroad reached the community?
Did you know that Bruce Springsteen's song "For You" is about a woman who has attempted suicide?
Did you know that Captain James Lind was knighted after the Battle of Vizagapatam, despite losing both merchants he was escorting?
Did you know that Jackson Browne and Pat MacDonald headlined a 2005 benefit concert to restore Wisconsin's historic Sturgeon Bay Bridge?
Did you know that Jan Piekałkiewicz, a leading Polish statistician, became the Polish Underground State's Government Delegate, and died at the hands of Nazi Germany?
Did you know that Katie Jarvis was cast in the film Fish Tank, after a casting agent spotted her having an argument with her boyfriend at Tilbury Town railway station?
Did you know that National Pig Day is included in a handbook for first-year teachers as a day for activities including cooking bacon, making BLTs, and discussing where pork chops come from?
Did you know that Peter Symonds, an English mercer, founded an almshouse in Winchester that was to become Peter Symonds College?
Did you know that Torvald Tu's musical comedy Kjærleik på Lykteland from 1923 was one of the greatest stage successes at Det Norske Teatret?
Did you know that a critic reviewing country music artist Ronnie Milsap's 2006 album My Life observed that Milsap's voice remained "virtually unchanged" since his debut in the early 1970s?
Did you know that although the report of the Benson Commission led to the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990, the report and Act disagreed in many ways?
Did you know that in only his second mixed martial arts fight, the 2006 World Champion in Greco-Roman wrestling, Joe Warren, defeated former champion Norifumi "Kid" Yamamoto?
Did you know that soprano Deborah Voigt lost over 100 pounds (45 kg) by means of gastric bypass surgery after she was fired in the "Covent Garden incident"?
Did you know that surform tools can shape materials as diverse as automobile repair plastic body filler and elephants' hooves?
Did you know that the Chinatown in Mexico City may be the world's smallest?
Did you know that the Olympic ice hockey tournament was nearly canceled when two hockey teams from the United States arrived in St. Moritz, Switzerland, to compete in the 1948 Winter Olympic Games?
Did you know that the Oscar Award-nominated film The Final Inch, a documentary about efforts to eradicate the poliovirus, is the first film project from Google's philanthropic division Google.org?
Did you know that the Sopwith Bulldog, a prototype British World War I fighter plane, was so unreliable that one test pilot said "I never remember being able to get all cylinders to fire at the same time"?
Did you know that the beard of Greek cardinal Basilios Bessarion was partly responsible for the defeat of his candidacy in the papal conclave, 1455?
Did you know that the debut single of Romanian singer Corina entitled Noi Doi reached fourth place in the Romanian Top 100?
Did you know that the original radio studio building of KOBB (then called KBMN) in northern Bozeman, Montana, now serves as a small casino?
Did you know that the peanut butter, banana and bacon sandwich would be New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's choice for his last meal and is sometimes referred to as an "Elvis sandwich"?
Did you know that when Farleigh Hungerford Castle (gateway pictured) was fortified from an existing manor house between 1370 and 1380, it was done without the appropriate "licence to crenellate" from the king?
Did you know that Mar Abba I, the Nestorian Catholicos of Seleucia-Ctesiphon from 540 to 552, was a convert from Zoroastrianism?
Did you know that Medieval runic inscriptions were discovered on the old portal of Melhus church?
Did you know that Poland's Antoni Gawryłkiewicz, a recipient of the Righteous among the Nations medal, signed his Yad Vashem deposition in Hebrew, a language he did not understand?
Did you know that Shakespeare Cliff Halt, a private railway station on a cliff ledge near Dover, England, has been used by miners, the British Army, and railway employees, but never by the public?
Did you know that Stegt Flæsk, a popular bacon dish in Danish cuisine, has been described as "a dish of pork fat, and only pork fat, in parsley sauce"?
Did you know that a Mitch Morgan, bourbon with a slice of bacon as a garnish, served as the inspiration for Bacon Salt?
Did you know that a new government was not formed in Cambodia for almost a year after the 2003 Cambodian parliamentary election?
Did you know that after ruling Japan for 135 years, the Hōjō clan set its family temple on fire before committing mass suicide within, and were enshrined en masse in the temple of Hōkai-ji?
Did you know that despite winning 37.3% of the vote the opposition coalition won no seats in the 2003 Djiboutian parliamentary election?
Did you know that former RNC chairman Guy Gabrielson was one of the few Republican politicians not to support Richard Nixon after the Checkers speech?
Did you know that from 1936 to 1939, Alexander Monkman led a volunteer effort to build a road through the Monkman Pass into British Columbia?
Did you know that in the 2003 Cypriot presidential election, Costas Kyriacou called for free love and claimed that he won 73 percent of the vote?
Did you know that modern radars use frequency agility to reduce the effects of intentional interference, or jamming?
Did you know that the Byzantine court title of protospatharios had such high prestige that an aged cleric once purchased it for over 19 kilograms (42 lb) of gold?
Did you know that the Dallas Aces were the world's first professional bridge team?
Did you know that the Hindu temple Swaminaryan Mandir in Colonia, New Jersey, USA, was originally a synagogue?
Did you know that the Lurgi-Ruhrgas process for oil shale extraction was originally developed for the liquefaction of lignite?
Did you know that the current head of the House of Lorraine has been for the last 87 years heir to one imperial and six royal titles?
Did you know that the flower chafer  species Eupoecila australasiae gains its common name of 'fiddler beetle' from its violin-shaped markings?
Did you know that Donald Duck talk, the voice used by Clarence Nash for Donald Duck, is one of three forms of alaryngeal speech?
Did you know that Irish architect Frederick Clarendon designed the Dublin museum known as the Dead Zoo?
Did you know that Karatsu ware is a style of Japanese pottery which is considered one of the top choices for implements used in the Japanese tea ceremony?
Did you know that Pakenham Windmill appeared in a short film used by the BBC in the 1950s for interludes between programmes?
Did you know that PokerTracker 3, the leading poker tool for online poker, uses a HUD analogous to the head-up display that Arnold Schwarzenegger's Terminator character used?
Did you know that Stanford Keglar was coached by ex-Purdue defensive back Ken Coudret in high school, before going on to play at Purdue himself?
Did you know that The Amber Witch, an opera by William Vincent Wallace, was based on a popular Gothic novel of the same name, first published in Britain in 1844?
Did you know that WW1 stopped production of AJS Model D motorcycles but a 1917  order to supply Russia with 1,100 military motorcycles enabled them to continue development?
Did you know that according to the 2000 United States Census, Guttenberg, New Jersey, is the most densely populated incorporated place in the U.S.?
Did you know that after the Poland–Czechoslovakia war, January 23 – January 30, 1919, a new border was agreed to on Feb. 3, 1919, at the signing of the Polish-Czech border agreement, in Paris?
Did you know that despite the word "heavyweight" in the title of the CZW World Heavyweight Championship, multiple non-heavyweight wrestlers have held the championship?
Did you know that in the advent of war with Great Britain, Adolf Hitler's Plan Z stipulated that the O class battlecruisers would be tasked with destroying convoys before they could deliver their cargo to the British?
Did you know that law professor Paul Steven Miller, who has a type of dwarfism, was one of the longest serving Commissioners of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission?
Did you know that optics began with the development of lenses by the ancient Egyptians and Mesopotamians (dispersive prism pictured)?
Did you know that the Driver's Privacy Protection Act, which protects the privacy of driver's license information in the United States, was upheld by unanimous decision of the United States Supreme Court in Reno v. Condon?
Did you know that the Nazi concentration camp Grini was built as a women's prison?
Did you know that the longest and shortest state highways in Washington are located in Pend Oreille County?
Did you know that the sale of alcohol was banned for three days during the 2003 Salvadoran legislative election?
Did you know that there has been a demand for a separate Tulu Nadu state from Karnataka, India since the 1990s?
Did you know that Anthracite, Alberta, now a ghost town, was once a hotspot for illegal activities?
Did you know that Barry Wood, who played quarterback at Harvard and became a physician and microbiologist, was elected to both the College Football Hall of Fame and the National Academy of Sciences?
Did you know that Filipino politician Richard Gordon is known for jumping on the scorer's table to rile up the crowd at Ateneo – La Salle games?
Did you know that Jerry Rosenberg, New York's longest-incarcerated inmate, was the first to earn a law degree in a New York prison and served as a jailhouse lawyer to the leaders of the Attica prison riot?
Did you know that Lazdynų Pelėda (Hazelnut Owl) was a common pen name used by two Lithuanian sister writers, Sofija Pšibiliauskienė and Marija Lastauskienė?
Did you know that a version of the maple bacon donut served up in an Omaha, Nebraska, bakery is based on a simple concept: breakfast combined into one item that you put in your mouth?
Did you know that before winning the third series of Britain's Got Talent, dance troupe Diversity won the UK National Street Dance competition?
Did you know that cookbook Seduced by Bacon by Joanna Pruess not only includes a recipe for pecan, brown sugar, and bacon ice cream, but also writings by Mark Twain?
Did you know that in a US study almost all surgeons indicated that they experienced  needlestick injuries during their training?
Did you know that the BMW R80G/S—launched in 1980—was the first motorcycle in the BMW GS family, of which half a million examples have now been built?
Did you know that the Ice Hotel in Québec, Canada, is the first ice hotel in North America?
Did you know that the Pyne and Harrison Opera Company paid composer William Vincent Wallace only 10 shillings for the rights to his opera Lurline and later made £50,000 from its performances?
Did you know that the Thorny Yellowwood is an Australian rainforest tree with a spiky trunk?
Did you know that the collapse of Australia's largest managed investment scheme agribusiness, Great Southern Group, is being examined by two separate Australian parliamentary committee inquiries?
Did you know that the jazz singer Eva Olmerová was persecuted by the State Security service of the Czechoslovak communist regime?
Did you know that the medieval lituus, a musical instrument that hasn't been seen or heard for 300 years and for which Johann Sebastian Bach composed music, has been recreated by a team of scientists from Switzerland and the United Kingdom?
Did you know that the old flower spikes of Banksia benthamiana may contain up to 130 follicles (seed pods)?
Did you know that the recently-announced video game Metroid: Other M is being co-developed by both Team Ninja and Nintendo?
Did you know that 94% of Dartmoor kistvaens have the longer axis of the tomb oriented NW/SE, apparently so that the deceased face the sun?
Did you know that Alysa Stanton is the first African American female rabbi?
Did you know that Fine Gael politician George Lee used The Week in Politics – broadcast by his former employer – to criticise a round of golf played by several Irish senators?
Did you know that Rowen House School in Derbyshire was an "Educational experiment" that used the power of the childhood group in the same way as Summerhill School?
Did you know that Sabal causiarum, the Puerto Rican hat palm, was once the base of an industry that produced large quantities of palm-leaf hats?
Did you know that Scottish actor J. Grant Anderson served in both World Wars, founded a theatre in India, and played a clown in a Burmese circus?
Did you know that Sofia, New Mexico, was founded in 1911 as the first Bulgarian agricultural colony in the United States, and was named after the Bulgarian capital Sofia?
Did you know that The Heartbreak Express' first and second FIP Tag Team Championship reigns hold the record for most, and fewest title defences respectively?
Did you know that actress and television announcer Barbara Matera is a candidate for the centre-right The People of Freedom (PdL) party in the 2009 European Parliament elections?
Did you know that after facing 2009 All-American softball pitcher Nikki Nemitz's fastball, a sports writer for the Detroit Free Press wrote that he "actually felt a breeze" and his "knees buckled"?
Did you know that because of the specific social structure of Japanese society there are many more homeless men than homeless women in Japan?
Did you know that during World War I, a British propaganda claim that Germans converted the bodies of their dead soldiers into various products, was based on a mistranslation of the German word Kadaver?
Did you know that jolly boats were carried on practically all types of warships of the Royal Navy during the age of sail, from ships of the line down to brigs?
Did you know that one-time Nickelodeon star Jason Zimbler (Clarissa Explains It All) founded the Portland, Oregon theatre company 'The Re-Theatre Instrument' in late 2007?
Did you know that the 9th-century Sambisari Hindu temple in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, was buried five meters underground for centuries?
Did you know that the Goa Liberation Movement, which sought freedom from Portuguese colonial rule, achieved its aim only when the India Army invaded Goa in 1961?
Did you know that the antebellum Stoney Creek Presbyterian Chapel in McPhersonville, South Carolina, was built by lowcountry rice planters as a summer chapel?
Did you know that the fine of £175,000 handed to Arsenal F.C. in 2003 after the Battle of Old Trafford was a record for English football?
Did you know that the small parrot known as the Guaiabero is so named in its native Philippines for its penchant for guavas?
Did you know that two American bands named themselves after the same 1960 Japanese Sun Tribe film The Warped Ones?
Did you know that 95% of cases of hypertension are of the essential hypertension type, and that essential hypertension has many established risk factors?
Did you know that Anna Goldfeder, a pioneer in the fields of radiology and cancer treatment, worked as a research scientist in an abandoned building for two years before she secured enough grant money to move her laboratory?
Did you know that Buttrum's Mill, Woodbridge, is the tallest surviving windmill in Suffolk?
Did you know that DNC Chairman Stephen A. Mitchell was mentioned in Richard Nixon's Checkers speech after he called for Nixon to resign from his ticket?
Did you know that Gotjawal Forest, a naturally formed forest on Jeju Island in South Korea, consists of a rocky area of aa lava?
Did you know that Holden Bowler, the namesake of J.D. Salinger's character Holden Caulfield, was also the godfather of singer Judy Collins?
Did you know that Lithuanian writer and educator Gabrielė Petkevičaitė-Bitė, as the oldest representative, chaired the first session of the Constituent Assembly of Lithuania in 1920?
Did you know that Lost Forest in Lake County, Oregon, is an isolated stand of Ponderosa pine separated from the nearest pine forest by forty miles of arid high desert?
Did you know that Robert Yates, assistant editor for The Observer first coined the term "grief porn" at a 2005 news conference to denote a "gratuitous indulgence of tangential association with tragedy"?
Did you know that Scottish actress Rona Anderson married fellow actor Gordon Jackson after appearing with him in the romantic drama Floodtide?
Did you know that Stefan Knapp, a Polish artist working in Great Britain, used his experiences in the Gulag and as a RAF pilot as a basis for his artwork?
Did you know that a schoolbag is the only known trace of 13 year-old Irish schoolboy Philip Cairns, who disappeared in October 1986?