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Did you know that ESPN sports commentator and physical therapist Stephania Bell has analyzed injuries of Tiger Woods and Alex Rodriguez?
Did you know that Furnace Brook Parkway, a historic road in Quincy, Massachusetts, is named for a stream at the site of the first iron blast furnace in the United States, built in 1644?
Did you know that Hillsboro, Oregon, politician William H. Wehrung worked on both the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition and the Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition?
Did you know that Jacques Legrand, a former translator at the French embassies in Mongolia and China, has studied the anthropology of Mongolian pastoralism?
Did you know that Mitsuyo Seo, the director of Japan's first feature length anime, Momotaro's Divine Sea Warriors, a World War II propaganda film, was earlier arrested and tortured as a leftist?
Did you know that a Glasgow-born railway engineer, John Harley, was responsible for revolutionizing the way Uruguay played football?
Did you know that although only an "amateur" at the time, Andrew Bloxam identified several new Hawaiian birds during the voyage of the HMS Blonde in 1825, including the Oʻahu ʻAkepa?
Did you know that although the Benjamin Ten Broeck House north of Kingston, New York, was built by Dutch settlers, the layout of one of its additions suggests its residents were Palatine Germans?
Did you know that between 2001 and 2007 the German Foundation "Remembrance, Responsibility and Future" paid €4.4 billion to more than 1,660,000 victims of forced labor in Germany during World War II?
Did you know that cricketer George Nichols was a key member of the Somerset team that was unbeaten against other counties of England and Wales in 1890?
Did you know that former National Football League wide receiver Tai Streets was named after former female figure skater Tai Babilonia?
Did you know that in her teen years, actress Lillebil Ibsen played leading roles in Max Reinhardt's pantomime productions?
Did you know that infamous bank robber John Dillinger studied the techniques of modern bank robbery pioneered by Herman Lamm?
Did you know that plexopathy, a disorder usually caused by trauma, can also occur idiopathically?
Did you know that radio station CKLW played "Wildflower" for three months before it was released as a single, in order for the station to meet Canadian content requirements?
Did you know that the Federal Triangle building complex in Washington, D.C. (construction pictured) has been called "one of the most important design and construction projects" in American history?
Did you know that the Rugrats episode "A Rugrats Chanukah" was pitched to the series crew by Nickelodeon in 1992?
Did you know that the book Nudge, written by Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler, defends the political philosophy of libertarian paternalism?
Did you know that the world's most expensive ice cream treat, the Golden Opulence Sundae, is covered in gold?
Did you know that "experienced Euro watcher" Tony Connelly wrote Don't Mention the Wars: A Journey Through European Stereotypes, examining the stereotypical views of Europeans?
Did you know that American athlete Eric Wilson won the 220-yard dash at the first NCAA track and field championships in 1921?
Did you know that Argentine President Juan Perón took refuge in the Libertador Building in Buenos Aires before he was deposed and exiled in a coup d'état in 1955?
Did you know that Australian aviator Captain Thomas Baker was credited with the destruction of 12 German aircraft between July and October 1918, before he was shot down and killed?
Did you know that Cecil Bothwell's election to the Asheville, North Carolina, city council was challenged on the grounds that the North Carolina Constitution does not allow for atheists to hold public office?
Did you know that Helena, comtesse de Noailles wrapped silk stockings stuffed with squirrel fur around her forehead to prevent wrinkles?
Did you know that Major-General Tim Cross was one of the most senior British military officers involved in the reconstruction of Iraq after the 2003 invasion?
Did you know that Peter Wolf Toth created a Trail of the Whispering Giants (giant pictured) that winds through every U.S. state, two Canadian provinces, and even Hungary?
Did you know that Rodriguez Seamount, an underwater volcano near Central California, used to be above-surface, and still has remnants of black sand beaches on its slope?
Did you know that although the fruits of the nightshade Solanum erianthum are considered poisonous and can be used in arrow poison, they can be cooked and eaten and are even made into curry in southern India?
Did you know that excavations in 1887 and 1919 on Bussell Island uncovered a number of small, round graves of early inhabitants of present-day Tennessee, USA, circa 3000 BC to 1000 AD?
Did you know that hippalectryons are mythological half-horse, half-rooster creatures which were probably thought to confer magical protection?
Did you know that in 2006 Devon County Council first raised the flag of Devon, which was designed by a member of the public in 2002 via an online poll on BBC Devon?
Did you know that in Europe, the human consumption of pork, wild boar, and horse meat are the main sources of infection from the parasite Trichinella britovi?
Did you know that merrilactone A, a natural compound found in the fruits of some star anise trees indigenous to Myanmar and China, is neuroprotective and promotes the growth of neurons?
Did you know that the 1978 book The Green Cockatrice asserted that Irishman William Nugent was the real author of Shakespeare's works?
Did you know that the Gwent Wildlife Trust in Wales was originally formed to protect Magor Marsh, the last remaining major area of fenland on the Gwent Levels?
Did you know that the Social Credit Board in Alberta, Canada, was disbanded in 1948 because of its radical policy proposals and antisemitic conspiracy theories?
Did you know that Barker Crossing, a Mabey bridge in Workington, England, was named after Bill Barker following a campaign by local teenagers on YouTube?
Did you know that British surgeon Theodore Dyke Acland was the son-in-law of Jack the Ripper suspect Sir William Gull?
Did you know that Daulatpol gate in the Junagarh Fort in India has 41 hand imprints of the wives of Maharajas of Bikaner, who committed sati (self-immolation) on the funeral pyres of their husbands?
Did you know that Dick Padden led the Chicago White Sox to an American League championship as a player-manager in 1900, one season before the American League became a major league?
Did you know that Virginia House in Richmond, Virginia, was once a priory in Warwickshire, England, and was used to entertain Queen Elizabeth I?
Did you know that at 13 years, the tough, leathery leaves of the shrub Banksia petiolaris are the longest lived of any flowering plant thus far recorded?
Did you know that before the capture of Chusan (1840) during the First Opium War, the Chinese rejected British demands for a peaceful surrender of the island?
Did you know that during the Battle of Jutland, the captain of HMS New Zealand wore a Māori piupiu (grass skirt) and carried a greenstone tiki to ward off evil?
Did you know that during the Six-Day War, the Golani Brigade participated in the battle of Tel Faher, where it lost 23 of its soldiers?
Did you know that four Byzantine emperors were imprisoned in the Prison of Anemas?
Did you know that in 1814, the American privateer Syren captured HMS Landrail, and that in 1896, her namesake, the torpedo gunboat HMS Landrail, rammed and sank the four-masted clipper Siren?
Did you know that in North Korea, the question "How good was the taste of sungeoguk (trout soup)" is used as a common greeting to people returning from Pyongyang?
Did you know that the book Bacon: A Love Story includes jokes about bacon by comedian Jim Gaffigan?
Did you know that the most expensive dress owned by Maria Augusta, Duchess of Württemberg was worth 500 florins, more than 30 times a servant's annual income?
Did you know that Afognak Island State Park was established as a conservation area in 1892, but did not become an Alaska state park until 1994, as a result of the Exxon Valdez oil spill?
Did you know that Bradley Quinn, the official photographer for the Northern Irish band Snow Patrol, was a school classmate of lead singer Gary Lightbody?
Did you know that Jamaican-born poet, playwright and screenwriter Evan Jones wrote the 1963 BBC television play Madhouse on Castle Street in which Bob Dylan made his acting début?
Did you know that Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer had a small role as Sheriff Strunk in the 2007 film A Plumm Summer?
Did you know that Worthing Tabernacle, in West Sussex, reputedly obtained its first organ from Tudor fortress Walmer Castle?
Did you know that all apicomplexans are parasitic, creating a need for multiple radically different cellular morphologies?
Did you know that in 1919, Brooklyn's Morse Dry Dock and Repair Company, founded by Edward P. Morse, built the world's largest floating dry dock (section pictured)?
Did you know that opponents of Hans Feibusch's "violently masculine and brutal" Christ in Majesty mural at St Mary's Church, Goring-by-Sea took their case to a consistory court?
Did you know that the City Palace of Jaipur in Rajasthan, India, holds the world's two largest silver objects (one pictured)?
Did you know that the Lake Shore Limited, which began in 1897, was the New York Central Railroad's first regular luxury passenger train?
Did you know that the Ravensthorpe Nickel Mine, which cost US$2.2 billion to build, was sold by BHP Billiton for only $340 million in December 2009 after having operated for less than one year?
Did you know that the Spencer family's Wormleighton Manor in Warwickshire, England, was set ablaze by Royalist forces from Banbury during the English Civil War to prevent it becoming a parliamentary stronghold?
Did you know that the radical Congolese Youth Union, which took part in the overthrow of the Congolese President Fulbert Youlou in 1963, began as an offshoot of the youth wing of the French Communist Party?
Did you know that the soapy knight is actually a mushroom, so named because of its strong smell of soap?
Did you know that when Caroline von Wolzogen published her novel Agnes von Lilien anonymously in 1798, it was thought by some readers to be by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe or Friedrich Schiller?
Did you know that when Darryl Strawberry, a first-round draft pick of the New York Mets, left the Mets they received two first-round picks in compensation?
Did you know that Breachacha crannog was originally an artificial island located in the middle of a Scottish loch, but today it stands in the middle of an arable field?
Did you know that Colin Clouts Come Home Againe by the English poet Edmund Spenser has received little critical attention, yet has been called the "greatest pastoral eclogue" in the English language?
Did you know that Eurogamer's Tom Bramwell felt that Boxing Fever carried on the Punch Out!! legacy on the Game Boy Advance?
Did you know that Sven-Ivar Seldinger, a Swedish radiologist, first introduced the procedure of obtaining safe access to blood vessels and other hollow organs by use of a wire?
Did you know that a colony of the crab species Potamon fluviatile may have lived in Rome since before the Romans?
Did you know that a number of Test match cricketers have represented Nelson Cricket Club, including Learie Constantine, Kapil Dev and Steve Waugh?
Did you know that despite the Allied siege, La Rochelle was the last French city to be liberated from German occupation in 1945?
Did you know that for her debut wine, American porn actress Savanna Samson decided to use a blend based primarily on the rare Lazio grape Cesanese?
Did you know that in 1999, Haakon Bingen won a case in the Supreme Court of Norway, stopping circulation of an academic work written by Trond Bergh and Knut Einar Eriksen?
Did you know that paper money was first introduced into Vietnam during the reign of the Trần Dynasty?
Did you know that since finishing in the top ten on the third season of America's Got Talent, Kaitlyn Maher has continued to sing publicly and played the voice of Tiny in the film Santa Buddies?
Did you know that the Connaught Theatre in Worthing, UK, is a rare example of a cinema being converted into a theatre in the 1930s, when the reverse was common?
Did you know that the Joseph T. Smitherman Historic Building in Selma, Alabama, has housed a county courthouse, two schools, and three hospitals in its more than 160 year history?
Did you know that the New Japan Pro Wrestling-owned IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship was defended twice in the Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) promotion, while it was held by TNA wrestlers?
Did you know that the Queen of Elphame, the fairy from Scottish folklore, has appeared in a number of accounts from witchcraft trials and confessions, including the confession of Isobel Gowdie?
Did you know that the Renaissance artist Paolo Veronese is entombed in the church of San Sebastiano in Venice?
Did you know that the innovations of German art include the oldest sculpture of the human form and the first independent Western landscape paintings (example pictured)?
Did you know that the landmark libel case People v. Croswell was tried at the First Columbia County Courthouse in Claverack, New York?
Did you know that while doing "absolutely nothing" as a history professor at Cambridge, Shallet Turner was elected to the Royal Society for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge?
Did you know that Charlotte von Lengefeld, wife of Friedrich Schiller, wrote a posthumously published novel and corresponded with Charlotte von Stein and Goethe?
Did you know that Harry V. Gates' former ranch became the Crooked River Ranch in Eastern Oregon and his former house in Hillsboro, Oregon, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places?
Did you know that Michigan's Don McEwen, two-time NCAA champion in the two-mile run, also won consecutive Big Ten cross country championships even though his school had no varsity cross country team?
Did you know that Moussa Dadis Camara and Sékouba Konaté drew lots to determine who would be President of Guinea?
Did you know that Nathan Drake, protagonist of the Uncharted series, incorporates aspects from Johnny Knoxville and characters like Tintin and John McClane?
Did you know that Stanford's Flint Hanner, winner of the first NCAA javelin championship, later coached the Fresno State Bulldogs to 27 track and field championships?
Did you know that forests can migrate over the landscape?
Did you know that former Louisiana State Senator Art Lentini in 2004 led the move in his state to ban cloning, both for reproduction and research?
Did you know that in a short story by Kathryn Tucker Windham, Sturdivant Hall, a historic house museum in Alabama, is haunted?
Did you know that neocatastrophism is the theory that life-exterminating events such as gamma-ray bursts in the Milky Way have stopped the advent of complex life elsewhere in its Galactic Habitable Zone?
Did you know that production of the Triumph Tiger 80 British motorcycle ended with the outbreak of WW2 and never resumed after the Triumph works was destroyed in The Blitz?
Did you know that the C. R. formula was a proposal that had failed during the Gandhi–Jinnah talks in 1944?
Did you know that the Cornelius S. Muller House in Claverack, New York, was used for Committee of Safety meetings and courts martial during the American Revolutionary War?
Did you know that the English ambassador to Paris, Edward Stafford, is suspected to have given confidential information to Spain before the Spanish Armada in 1588?
Did you know that the Harriet Phillips Bungalow in Claverack, New York, may be a catalog house built by a company other than Sears?
Did you know that the Memorial Arch of Tilton, symbolizing the "victories of peace", is constructed in Northfield, New Hampshire on the site of an old Indian fort?
Did you know that the Norwegian black metal band Burzum is to release its first album after its founder was freed from prison on parole?
Did you know that the leader of the governing Free National Movement lost his seat in the 2002 Bahamian general election?
Did you know that the term "Obama Doctrine" was used more than a year before Barack Obama became President of the United States?
Did you know that there is a mountain named after executed merchant mariner Captain Charles Fryatt, and another is named after his ship, SS Brussels?
Did you know that , according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Grassy Island in the Detroit River contains 28 different types of toxic contaminants that exceed acceptable state and federal safety levels?
Did you know that Boston's Southwest Corridor Park was built along the vacant path of a canceled highway?
Did you know that Ole Colbjørnsen has been called "Norway's first plan economist"?
Did you know that Robert Hood Bowers' score for the lost silent film A Daughter of the Gods was called in 1921 the most memorable up to that time?
Did you know that chaplain Władysław Gurgacz, member of the Polish anti-communist resistance, opposed lethal force, but was nonetheless executed by the Polish communist authorities?
Did you know that due to receding glaciers, in 1951, the Alaska Railroad was able to move its route and abandon a curved tunnel built in 1906?
Did you know that during internal fertilization, the black rockfish female produces between 125,000 and 1,200,000 eggs, and then reabsorbs some back?
Did you know that in an effort to prevent the extinction of the Mauna Kea silversword, scientists rappel over cliffs to hand-pollinate the approximately 41 remaining individuals in the wild, on the rare occasion that one blossoms?
Did you know that in the City Palace of Udaipur, India, a princess poisoned herself, unable to choose from two suitors of royal families of Jaipur and Jodhpur seeking her hand in marriage?
Did you know that on 12 December 2009, Kaiane Aldorino became the first Miss World from Gibraltar?
Did you know that producers of the Showtime series Dexter imposed security measures and staff members had to sign non-disclosure agreements to prevent leaks of the surprise twist ending of the episode "The Getaway"?
Did you know that professional footballer Andy Bell spent nearly a decade with hometown club Blackburn Rovers, without making a single first-team appearance?
Did you know that the 1955 Bo Diddley song "Diddley Daddy" was originally called "Diddy Diddy Dum Dum," but the lyrics had to be rewritten in the studio for contractual reasons?
Did you know that the Beirut-born, American blues guitarist Otis Grand was voted 'Best UK Blues Guitarist' seven years running (1990–1996) by the British Blues Connection magazine?
Did you know that the cap of the suede bolete, a species of edible mushroom, has soft velvety skin?
Did you know that the first season of the animated sitcom Home Movies was the only season of the series to utilize the "squigglevision" style of animation?
Did you know that the mushroom Cystodermella cinnabarina can only be distinguished from similar fungi by performing chemical tests and microscopic analysis of spores, basidia and cystidia?
Did you know that Brazilian judoka and 1988 Olympic Champion Aurélio Miguel was later elected to the city council of São Paulo?
Did you know that Count Marsillac and Otto Ferdinand von Abensberg und Traun, opposing commanders in the 1734 siege of Capua, once shared a tent?
Did you know that Michigan Wolverines Hall of Famer Phil Northrup won three NCAA championships in the javelin throw and pole vault?
Did you know that Odd Isøy replaced the deceased Kjell Bull-Hansen as team leader in Milorg's sabotage squad Aks 13000 during World War II in Norway?
Did you know that according to legend, the Bulgarian wine grape Dimiat was brought to Thrace by Crusaders returning from the Nile Delta?
Did you know that as "the first novel with a thesis", Patronage by Anglo-Irish writer Maria Edgeworth, published in 1814, opened the way for the historical novels of Sir Walter Scott?
Did you know that in 1892, the Governor of Lagos, Gilbert Thomas Carter, ordered an attack on the Ijebu people of pre-colonial Nigeria "in the interest of civilization"?
Did you know that in Cambodia a person can catch the norry, an improvised bamboo train?
Did you know that in seeking to overcome the low in Congo–Zaire relations in the early 1970s due to the LICOPA affair, Congolese authorities sentenced a Zairean opposition member to three years' imprisonment?
Did you know that in the 1849 Dutch intervention in Bali, the defeated Balinese court committed mass suicide, traditionally known as a Puputan?
Did you know that plant species of the family Rubiaceae have supplied coffee, quinine, syrup of ipecac, dimethyltryptamine, and indirectly, warfarin?
Did you know that the German Seenotdienst (early aircraft pictured) was the first organized air-sea rescue service?
Did you know that the death of a character in the Dexter episode "The British Invasion" was planned from two seasons beforehand?
Did you know that the debate over the Irish budget, 2010, which contains the first cuts in social welfare since 1924, revealed that the word "fuck" is not unparliamentary language in Ireland?
Did you know that the volcanic chain responsible for creating the island of Hawaii extends all the way to the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench, at the border of Russia?
Did you know that Acabou Chorare, a 1972 album by Novos Baianos, was ranked number 1 by Rolling Stone magazine in 2007 on its list of the 100 greatest albums of Brazilian music?
Did you know that Bunaken National Park in the north of Sulawesi island of Indonesia, located near the centre of the Coral Triangle, provides habitat to 390 coral species?
Did you know that Cheryl Cole performed her song "Fight for This Love" whilst dressed as a ninja for the television special Cheryl Cole's Night In?
Did you know that Christina Broom was credited as "the UK's first female press photographer"?
Did you know that Drew Sheneman was only 23 when he was hired by The Star-Ledger in 1998, making him the youngest full-time editorial cartoonist in the United States?
Did you know that Hjalmar Steenstrup was selected to represent the Norwegian concentration camp prisoners during the Nuremberg Trials?
Did you know that Katherine Reutter, a speed skater on the 2010 U.S. Olympic team, had her thigh autographed by comedian Stephen Colbert?
Did you know that The Old Wives' Tale, an English Renaissance play by George Peele, was the first English work satirizing the romantic dramas popular at the time?
Did you know that in 1989 the song "La Chica de Humo" became the third number-one single by Mexican singer Emmanuel in the Billboard Top Latin Songs chart?
Did you know that in 2006, the Alabama Department of Environmental Management hired an environmental justice ombudsman?
Did you know that in England until the early 20th century, a man wishing to separate from his wife could lead her to market by a halter and sell her (process pictured) to the highest bidder?
Did you know that one version of the 8th-century Irish text The Expulsion of the Déisi contains a passage claiming the Irish group known as the Déisi founded the royal dynasty of Dyfed, Wales?
Did you know that owners of The Punch Bowl, a London pub, have included entertainer Madonna, film director Guy Ritchie and convicted criminal and Kray twins associate Freddie Foreman?
Did you know that the George Felpel House in Claverack, New York, was built with the stones left over after Claverack College was demolished?
Did you know that the Norwegian communist politician Erling Folkvord is well-known for his work as a corruption watchdog?
Did you know that the Still engine was a combined steam and diesel engine designed to save fuel by using the exhaust gases to heat the boiler?
Did you know that the clique problem of programming a computer to find complete subgraphs in an undirected graph was first studied as a way to find groups of people who all know each other in social networks?
Did you know that the worm lizard Amphisbaena ridleyi, isolated on remote Fernando de Noronha, is known for eating snails and for climbing trees to drink nectar from the flowers?