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Did you know that the Task Force on Childhood Obesity, established by the Obama Administration in 2010, seeks to eliminate childhood obesity in the United States within a generation?
Did you know that the convoy, a group of merchantmen or troopships travelling together with a naval escort, was revived during World War I?
Did you know that the influential 2000 oncology paper "The Hallmarks of Cancer" identified six features that all cancers have in common?
Did you know that trolleybuses in Derby (example pictured) last operated in 1967, but there are still five preserved by collectors?
Did you know that Acid-Fest, a professional wrestling memorial show for Trent Acid, featured one of the largest battle royals ever held?
Did you know that George Johnstone was a Royal Navy officer, an MP, a director of the East India Company, a member of the Carlisle Peace Commission and the first Governor of West Florida?
Did you know that Henry Seidel Canby compared the ruins of Isabella Furnace to a 12th-century Persian mosque?
Did you know that Isaac Perrins, an 18th-century bareknuckle prizefighter, was described as "the knock-kneed hammerman from Soho"?
Did you know that Marino Murillo, the former Minister of Economy and Planning of Cuba, believes the Cuban economic system is too paternalistic and supports the creation of a small-scale private market?
Did you know that Penally Abbey in Pembrokeshire is believed to have been founded by Saint Teilo in the 6th century?
Did you know that although the nuclear policy of the United States regulates the nuclear energy industry more strictly than most others, there have been 52 incidents (Three Mile Island cleanup pictured) costing an estimated $8.56 billion?
Did you know that by winning the 1979 Gillette Cup Final, Somerset County Cricket Club won their first trophy since forming 104 years earlier?
Did you know that in the Fringe episode "The Ghost Network", the writers wanted guest actor Zak Orth to shave his head in preparation for a scene, but he successfully "begged" them not to?
Did you know that the Beagle Channel in Tierra del Fuego National Park in Argentina is named after the British ship Beagle, which sailed with the explorer Charles Darwin in 1833–34?
Did you know that the city of Ajdabiya, newly recaptured by Libyan rebels, was founded as a staging post on the crossroads of two key trading routes?
Did you know that the decorative, "humpbacked" Chamberlain Bridge in Barbados, named after British Colonial Secretary Joseph Chamberlain, replaced an older bridge destroyed by the Great Hurricane of 1898?
Did you know that the documentary film Berlin im Aufbau has historical significance in that it documents the first phase of the rebuilding of the destroyed city of Berlin after World War II?
Did you know that the neo-realist film A Berlin Romance is a strong critique of the obsession with consumer goods and the Americanization of mid-1950s Berlin?
Did you know that the unauthorized use of data from the National Register of Electors, the permanent database of eligible Canadian voters, can carry a penalty of a year in prison?
Did you know that Amy Krouse Rosenthal is the only author to have three children's books on Pennsylvania State University's baker's dozen list of the "very best picture books published in 2009"?
Did you know that Keipert syndrome affects the nose and big toes?
Did you know that Salvador Dalí insisted that his painting Galatea of the Spheres be displayed on an easel previously owned by Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier in the Dalí Theatre and Museum in Figueres?
Did you know that Tommy Lyttle, the leader of the Ulster Defence Association's West Belfast Brigade, liked to read James Bond novels?
Did you know that acquisitions whilst Christopher Wright was Head of Manuscripts at the British Library included the archives of Punch magazine and that of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?
Did you know that an annual award is given in honor of the Georgia old-time craftsman and blacksmith Alex W. Bealer, author of The Art of Blacksmithing?
Did you know that as a teenager, Justine Thornton, the fiancée of British Labour Party leader Ed Miliband, appeared in the controversial television comedy Hardwicke House?
Did you know that automotive journalist David E. Davis wore a full beard after a racing accident severely disfigured his face – and the ambulance attendant threw away pieces of his nasal cartilage?
Did you know that in 1986, a possible image of President Abraham Lincoln was discovered in an 1860s photo of the deck of revenue cutter USRC Wayanda?
Did you know that the Jersey J-Cup, patterned after the Super J Cup Japanese wrestling tournament, is the second-oldest independent wrestling tournament in the United States?
Did you know that the Museo Soumaya, a private museum in Mexico City based on one couple's art collection, has the largest collection of Auguste Rodin sculpture outside of France?
Did you know that the Pawtuxet-class revenue cutters Ashuelot, Kankakee, Kewanee, and Pawtuxet were all sold in 1867 after barely three years service, but their sister ship Levi Woodbury retired in 1915 as the Coast Guard's oldest cutter?
Did you know that the U.S. government imprisoned the Baron of Arizona after learning he had damaged books in Mexican and Spanish libraries?
Did you know that the land at West Weber, Utah, was reported in 1903 to have a reputation as one of the poorest soils between the Great Salt Lake and Ogden?
Did you know that the proposed construction of the Halabiye Dam on the Euphrates in Syria threatens the Roman–Byzantine sites of Halabiye and Zalabiye?
Did you know that 19th-century English artist John Carter learned to draw, paint and write with his mouth, after a fall from a tree left him paralysed below the neck?
Did you know that Detlev Glanert's opera Caligula, after the play by Albert Camus on the cruel Roman emperor, was first staged at the Oper Frankfurt in 2006?
Did you know that Frank Searle designed the X-type and B-type bus, and was the Managing Director of Daimler Airway and Imperial Airways?
Did you know that Pele's hair, and Pele's tears are well preserved at Devastation Trail after the 1959 eruption of Kīlauea Iki crater?
Did you know that Perry Como's musical arranger, Nick Perito, also helped Bob Hope's wife, Dolores, revive her singing career after 60 years?
Did you know that Princess Ennigaldi, daughter of the last Neo-Babylonian king Nabonidus, created the world's first museum (ruins pictured)?
Did you know that Rear-Admiral Horatio Nelson wrote a personal letter to Lieutenant Charles Inglis congratulating him for his part in the action of 31 March 1800?
Did you know that Rhodactis howesii, a sea anemone-like corallimorph, is eaten by the Samoans but can prove fatal if consumed raw?
Did you know that The Man in the Moone, a 1638 book (frontispiece and title page pictured) by the English bishop Francis Godwin, is considered one of the first science fiction books?
Did you know that Urbanus, the Grammy-nominated album by Stefon Harris, was recorded in the days leading up to Barack Obama's inauguration?
Did you know that during a career lasting almost fifty years at TV station WJXT in Jacksonville, Florida, George Winterling helped develop television weather forecasting?
Did you know that goaltender Ben Scrivens signed with the NHL's Toronto Maple Leafs organization mainly for the opportunity to work with goalie coach François Allaire?
Did you know that in Jalpan de Serra in Querétaro, Mexico, there is an annual festival to celebrate "countrymen" visiting from the United States?
Did you know that on July 28, 2006, Daytona Cubs baseball player Ryan Harvey set a Florida State League record by hitting four home runs in a game against the Clearwater Threshers?
Did you know that the 15th-century Treatise of Love is based on the 13th-century monastic manual Ancrene Wisse, but shows considerably less interest in carnal love?
Did you know that the Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda (example pictured) in Querétaro, Mexico, have been classified as "mestizo architecture" because of the mixture of European and indigenous influences?
Did you know that the Großgaststätte Ahornblatt, a concrete building in the shape of a maple leaf in former East Berlin, was built in 1973 and demolished in 2000?
Did you know that the North American Star League, a professional e-sports league for players of the video game StarCraft II, will award US$100,000 to the winner of its inaugural season?
Did you know that the homemade Israeli mortar memorialized in Jerusalem's Davidka Square was totally inaccurate, but it made such a huge noise that it sent the enemy fleeing in panic?
Did you know that traditionally, each season of cross country running in Italy concludes in March with Trofeo Alasport on the island of Sardinia?
Did you know that 1986 Nobel Prize winner John Polanyi spent three years in Canada as a child to avoid German bombings during World War II?
Did you know that Mammotrectus super Bibliam, a guide book to understanding the Bible, was popular in the 15th century, but was criticized in the 16th century?
Did you know that No. 1 Basic Flying Training School was formed in 1951 in response to the RAAF's increased demand for aircrew during the Korean War and Malayan Emergency?
Did you know that Quezon Representative Lorenzo Tañada III's first girlfriend was former Akbayan Representative Risa Hontiveros while they were studying at the Ateneo de Manila University?
Did you know that R. E. Grant Govan, founder of Indian National Airways Ltd, also co-founded the Board of Control for Cricket in India and Cricket Club of India?
Did you know that Rudolf Fränkel's Lichtburg cinema in Berlin, with its rooftop searchlights, probably influenced Cecil Clavering's Odeon cinema in Kingstanding?
Did you know that San Francisco fireboat Phoenix pumped some 5.5 million gallons (20.8 ML) of seawater to help fight fires after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake?
Did you know that Tal Brody was drafted 12th in the National Basketball Association draft, but chose instead to play basketball for Israel?
Did you know that a stained glass window in St. Paul's Church, King Cross, Halifax built in 1911, is dedicated in memory of Edward Wainhouse, whose daughter married the first vicar of the prior church built in 1846?
Did you know that approximately 6,500 out of a national population of an estimated 56,452 people (2010) in Greenland are employed in the fishing industry (fishing vessel pictured)?
Did you know that in Thailand, the smiling terrapin is believed to contain the souls of people who died while trying to save others from drowning?
Did you know that leading Ulster Defence Association member Stephen "Top Gun" McKeag sang "Follow the Yellow Brick Road" after committing a sectarian killing?
Did you know that the French ship of the line Censeur was captured during the Battle of Genoa in 1795 after coming to the assistance of a damaged ship?
Did you know that the Knoxville Riot of 1919, one of the events of that year's Red Summer, began when a lynch mob stormed the jail in pursuit of a man believed to have been the mayor's illegitimate son?
Did you know that the Ottoman torpedo boat Sultanhisar attacked and seriously damaged the Australian submarine HMAS AE2 in 1915 but rescued all the crew before the submarine went down in the Sea of Marmara?
Did you know that the adjective "Polish-Lithuanian" refers to pre-nationalistic, multicultural inhabitants of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, unlike the modern understanding of the two nationalities?
Did you know that the extinct Miocene redwood, Sequoiadendron chaneyi, is the probable ancestor to the giant sequoias in California?
Did you know that the story of Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, the topic of Sandeep Bhagwati's opera for the 1998 Munich Biennale, was considered fit for a film?
Did you know that Decuriasuchus may be the first known archosaur to exhibit group behavior?
Did you know that Hurricane Hiki was the wettest tropical cyclone on record in the United States?
Did you know that James FitzGerald, the first editor of the Lyttelton Times, later founded its main competitor, The Press?
Did you know that Reform Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch, who led the struggle against Israel's Orthodox establishment to recognize the Reform movement, co-authored a book with an Orthodox rabbi?
Did you know that Robert Phelps is a "grandfather" of modern variational principles, according to Ivar Ekeland?
Did you know that because it was too dark inside the Church of St Peter ad Vincula in Colemore, Hampshire, the parishioners petitioned the bishop in 1669 to have the south transept removed?
Did you know that composer Jan Müller-Wieland called his first stage work, premiered at the Munich Biennale in 1992, a "Cabaret Farce for singers, pianists and percussionists"?
Did you know that in Oregon's 1990 U.S. Senate election, incumbent Mark Hatfield's opponent in the Republican primary was best known for having spent 40 days tree sitting to protest old-growth logging?
Did you know that in the early 19th century, the word gullible wasn't in the dictionary?
Did you know that riparian forests contain some ⅓ of the estimated 3000 flora species in Benin?
Did you know that someone was once stabbed at the Sunset Esplanade in Hillsboro, Oregon, for complimenting an Oakland Raiders hat?
Did you know that staff of the historic The Press Building were two weeks away from moving into a new office building when the 2011 Christchurch earthquake struck, killing one?
Did you know that the Chapman Swifts, a flock of Vaux's Swift, inspired a Portland, Oregon, community to raise over US$60,000 for a new school heating system so the birds could have the old chimney to roost?
Did you know that the George Washington Masonic National Memorial was proposed in 1852, began construction in 1922, dedicated in 1932, and finished in 1970?
Did you know that the commander of the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, Captain Helmuth Brinkmann, was a classmate of the battleship Bismarck's commander Ernst Lindemann?
Did you know that the first Allied soldier killed during the Normandy landings was part of Operation Deadstick?
Did you know that there is pressure to close the Fessenheim Nuclear Power Plant, the oldest in France, because of concerns over the risk of earthquakes?
Did you know that Blackbutt, Christmas Bells, and Turpentine grow in the Garawarra State Conservation Area?
Did you know that Ditsworthy Warren House, built on Dartmoor for the keeper of a rabbit warren, was used as a filming location for Steven Spielberg's forthcoming movie War Horse?
Did you know that Gyanvapi Mosque in Varanasi, India, built on the site of the original Kashi Vishwanath Temple, still shows evidence of the temple in its foundation, columns, and rear?
Did you know that Hospital Borda's Radio La Colifata is the world's first radio station broadcast from inside a psychiatric hospital?
Did you know that John Fenn, winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and his colleagues at Monsanto "practically bathed" in PCBs during the early 1940s?
Did you know that Namibian Hans Daniel Namuhuja was the first author to publish poetry in Oshindonga, a dialect of Oshiwambo?
Did you know that Romania's Symbolist movement (iconography pictured) fostered the literary careers of far-right theorist Nae Ionescu, defrocked monk Tudor Arghezi, and Dada co-founder Tristan Tzara?
Did you know that although described as one of the finest buildings in Glasgow, The Egyptian Halls may be demolished?
Did you know that as an unelected Congressional delegate from Jefferson Territory, George M. Willing claimed to have created the word "Idaho" as a name for Colorado?
Did you know that coach Billy Gillispie once made Kentucky Wildcats center Josh Harrellson sit in a bathroom stall during half-time of a game?
Did you know that during World War II, Germany and Japan wanted to divide all of Asia between each other along a line on the 70th meridian east longitude?
Did you know that former Hillsboro, Oregon, mayor Harry T. Bagley worked to get a conviction overturned from a trial his brother George R. Bagley presided over?
Did you know that soon after he was ordained, John Wesley preached in St Mary's Church in Fleet Marston, Buckinghamshire?
Did you know that the 75-metre (246 ft) tall towers of St. Florian's Cathedral in Warsaw's eastern district of Praga highlight its role as a form of protest against the Russian domination of Poland?
Did you know that the German destroyer Bruno Heinemann was forced to transfer fuel oil to the destroyer Friedrich Eckoldt during the Norwegian Campaign to allow the latter to return to Germany?
Did you know that the Mariana Islands period of prehistoric stone megaliths, such as those found at House of Taga on Tinian, may have originated with the Rota Latte Stone Quarry?
Did you know that the extinct parasitic wasp genus Aspidopleura is known from only two fossils found in Baltic amber?
Did you know that under the ongoing Russian police reform, the name of Russia's law enforcers was changed from "militia" to "police"?
Did you know that when Antoinette Sterling sang the English folk song "Three Fishers" in the late 1800s, she made the first verse "quite bright" so as not to give away the unhappy ending?
Did you know that while building a wagon road along Union Creek, Francis M. Smith and John M. Corbell rediscovered Crater Lake, the deepest lake in the United States and one of the clearest in the world?
Did you know that Alaska Supreme Court Justice Craig F. Stowers worked as a park ranger before he earned his Juris Doctor from UC Davis School of Law?
Did you know that American artist Colin Campbell Cooper helped rescue survivors of the Titanic, and during the rescue created several paintings (example pictured) which document the events?
Did you know that Edward Litt Laman Blanchard, who later became a prominent writer for the Drury Lane pantomime, began writing for The Town when he was 17 years of age?
Did you know that Epitaphium, composed for string trio by Graham Waterhouse, is performed today in Wigmore Hall in a memorial concert for his father, the bassoonist William Waterhouse?
Did you know that Lumley Chapel is the oldest standing building in the London Borough of Sutton?
Did you know that Sir Henry Primrose, the chairman of the board of the Inland Revenue, played two international football matches for Scotland in the 1870s?
Did you know that Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’s new opera about student activism, Kommilitonen!, was intended to be performed by students?
Did you know that Warren Matthews, a graduate of both Stanford and Harvard appointed by Republican Governor Jay Hammond, was the second-longest serving Supreme Court justice in Alaska history?
Did you know that a match at the World Wrestling Federation's Survivor Series (2000) event ended with one wrestler using a forklift to destroy a car, supposedly with his opponent trapped inside?
Did you know that as many as 11 geological features in Utah are named Mollie's (or Molly's) Nipple?
Did you know that in the Indian state of Bihar, pressure from communist Party Unity guerrillas forced the upper-caste paramilitary Bhoomi Sena to surrender to the peasant organisation MKSS?
Did you know that recycling in Canada is administered by the provincial and local governments?
Did you know that singer Jenny Silver debuted with the Swedish dance band Candela, when it was signed to Bert Karlsson's label Mariann Grammofon?
Did you know that the Fordwich stone in the Church of St Mary in Fordwich, Kent, may have been part of the shrine of Saint Augustine of Canterbury?
Did you know that the Lincoln Thornton Manuscript, compiled around 1430-1440 by an amateur scribe and country gentleman, contains the only extant copies of Sir Degrevant and the Alliterative Morte Arthure?
Did you know that the Museum of Lebanese Prehistory exhibits neolithic relics from the Beqaa Valley recovered by Jesuits?
Did you know that the Tasmanian pygmy possum is the world's smallest species of possum?
Did you know that the extinct Eocene parasitic wasp Brevivulva electroma was named from the Latin words meaning "short amber wrapper"?
Did you know that three million trees, including pine, oak, sweet chestnut, and acacia, are being planted every year as part of reforestation efforts in Cape Verde?
Did you know that 84% of Botswana is covered by the Kalahari Desert, a flat terrain known as a "thirstland", which harbours some of the wildlife of Botswana?
Did you know that Bach composed Himmelskönig, sei willkommen, BWV 182, for Palm Sunday as his first cantata for the Schlosskirche of the court in Weimar?
Did you know that Ivan Silayev was the last Premier of the Soviet Union?
Did you know that Monte do Gozo, a hill in Spain, is most known for its view of a sight below, a view that is now largely obscured?
Did you know that Neptune, god of the sea, can be found in Henderson Street, Edinburgh?
Did you know that Zenith Productions, which produced Inspector Morse, was later also responsible for Ant & Dec's SMTV Live?
Did you know that bizarre silks of the early 18th century feature "some of the most extraordinary shapes to be introduced into silk design" before the development of Art Nouveau?
Did you know that in 1903, Benjamin Franklin Yoakum began building the Gulf Coast Lines in southern Texas as a link in a projected transcontinental railroad system stretching from Chicago to Mexico?
Did you know that in Jones v Kaney, the UK Supreme Court overturned a line of authority going back 400 years to allow an expert witness to be sued for professional negligence?
Did you know that missionary E. E. Aiken was a member of Skull and Bones at Yale in 1881 and the next year wrote a book denouncing such secret societies?
Did you know that nearly all orders for Nintendo's Laser Clay Shooting System were canceled as a result of the 1973 oil crisis, plunging the company ¥5 billion into debt?
Did you know that preacher John "Zion" Ward was jailed for blasphemy in 1832, prompting a petition to Parliament by Henry Hunt, and a speech in the House of Commons by MP Joseph Hume?
Did you know that the Codex Sangallensis 1395 is one of the oldest manuscripts of the Vulgate?
Did you know that the German destroyer Z9 Wolfgang Zenker had exhausted her ammunition after the Second Naval Battle of Narvik and she had to be scuttled by placing demolition charges after she had been beached?
Did you know that the Spirit Fruit Society is considered to have existed longer and more successfully than any other utopian group in the United States?
Did you know that the original walk-in safe from a bank that once occupied the first floor of the Wheeler Opera House in Aspen, Colorado, is still on display in the lobby?
Did you know that , despite speculation that the Panama Creature was an alien life form, it was later shown to be a decomposing Brown-throated Sloth?
Did you know that 140-pound quarterback Ferris Jennings ran 66 yards for the first of only two touchdowns scored all year by the 1934 Michigan football team that also featured future US President Gerald Ford?
Did you know that Christoph Schlingensief died before the Berlin premiere of the opera which he had staged, Metanoia. Über das Denken hinaus by Jens Joneleit, conducted by Daniel Barenboim?
Did you know that James Watt asked Sir Joseph Banks PRS to support the Pneumatic Institution, where willing subjects, including its laboratory superintendent, a young Humphry Davy, were given laughing gas?
Did you know that Pinal de Amoles, Querétaro, Mexico hosts an annual national level Huapango dance competition?
Did you know that Stanford University graduate Charles Coiner, a Republican Idaho Senator from 2004 to 2010, supported efforts to teach about Japanese-American internment in Idaho public schools?
Did you know that Valentin Pavlov, the Prime Minister of the Soviet Union and de facto Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers, was involved in the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev?
Did you know that Warner's Hotel in Christchurch demolished its northern end and built a theatre in its place to shield its patrons from the noise of the printing presses in the adjacent Lyttelton Times Building (buildings pictured)?