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Did you know that Olena Krasovska ran the fastest 100 metres hurdles race (12.45 seconds) by an athlete representing Ukraine, but despite this she does not hold the Ukrainian record?
Did you know that Senator Orris S. Ferry, who served as a brigadier general in the American Civil War, died of a wasting spinal disease?
Did you know that Twice Blessed is an American Book Award winning novel by Filipino author Ninotchka Rosca?
Did you know that Ukrainian sprinter Anzhela Kravchenko has more national titles in the 100 and 200 metres than double world champion Zhanna Pintusevich-Block?
Did you know that although U.S. President Barack Obama is Christian, high-ranked al-Qaida member Ayman al-Zawahiri has falsely claimed that Obama secretly "pray[s] the prayers of the Jews"?
Did you know that comedian Andy Samberg guest starred in the Parks and Recreation episode "Park Safety", which he called "the best episode, and maybe not just of this show but of any show on television ever"?
Did you know that former First Lady of New Hampshire Gale Thomson ran a maple syrup business from her 19th century farmhouse in Orford?
Did you know that in 2003, an English translation of Shadow Tower Abyss, the forerunner to From Software's award-winning Demon's Souls, was cancelled by Sony over fears that the game's style lacked market appeal?
Did you know that in the 1779 raid led by General William Tryon, British troops destroyed 83 houses, two churches, and a jail in Fairfield, Connecticut?
Did you know that journalist Lauro Aguirre planned a violent takeover of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico in 1906?
Did you know that reed boats, made with reeds such as the papyrus, have been used for at least 7000 years and are still built in Peru and Ethiopia?
Did you know that substorms were first described in 1964?
Did you know that the 7th century Arab Islamic palatial complex of Al-Sinnabra at the southern end of the Sea of Galilee was originally thought to be a Byzantine-era synagogue?
Did you know that the Treaty of Pozvol triggered the Livonian War?
Did you know that the Yalbugha Mosque was built in 1264 by Mamluk princes in Damascus, Syria?
Did you know that the debut in Carnegie Hall of tenor James Taylor was in the premiere of the Levine completion of Mozart's Great Mass in C minor?
Did you know that the forests of Syria, celebrated throughout ancient times for their richness, have been reduced to their present-day area of 4,500 square kilometres (1,700 mi2)?
Did you know that the specific name of the small shrub Adenanthos cacomorphus, meaning 'ugly form', relates to its "misshapen" pollen grains?
Did you know that the word "pitcher" originates from the 13th century Middle English word picher, which means earthen jug?
Did you know that under the terms of the Treaty of Seringapatam, which ended the Third Anglo-Mysore War in 1792, Tipu Sultan was required to surrender two of his sons as hostages of war (scene pictured)?
Did you know that Ada Louise Huxtable called Portland, Oregon's Keller Fountain Park "one of the most important urban spaces since the Renaissance"?
Did you know that Azalea Trail Maids appeared in the inauguration parade of President Barack Obama in full antebellum-era dresses?
Did you know that Gowardia, a lichen found in tundra of the Northern Hemisphere, is named after the lichenologist Trevor Goward?
Did you know that Harry Crosby, whose Black Sun Press published struggling writers like D. H. Lawrence, Hart Crane, James Joyce and Ezra Pound, died at age 31 in a suicide pact with his lover?
Did you know that Ivan Kramskoi's 1883 Portrait of an Unknown Woman caused a sensation when first exhibited, as critics assumed that the woman was of ill repute?
Did you know that Lado Ketskhoveli was one of the first revolutionaries to introduce Stalin to Marxism?
Did you know that Leptodora is the largest planktonic cladoceran, and its type species is probably the only cladoceran to have been described in a newspaper?
Did you know that MacGillivray Milne was appointed Governor of American Samoa less than two years after having been court-martialed?
Did you know that Michael Barlow is the seventh winner of the Fothergill-Round Medal in the last eight years that was listed on an Australian Football League squad via the rookie draft?
Did you know that President George Washington was once a guest at Lloyd House?
Did you know that Sir Viv Richards scored the fastest century in Test cricket, taking just 56 balls to reach his hundred against England in 1986?
Did you know that Siraj Gena finished his winning run of the Rome Marathon barefoot to honour the 50th anniversary of Abebe Bikila's marathon gold at the 1960 Rome Olympics?
Did you know that Welgelegen (or Tjepkema's Molen) is the only survivor of seventeen windmills to have stood in Heerenveen, Friesland, the Netherlands, since the 15th century?
Did you know that a failed Cretan revolt of 1828, led by Hatzimichalis Dalianis, is the basis for the local legend of the ghost army of the Drosoulites?
Did you know that a raga in Indian musician Ram Narayan's album Rag Shankara, Rag Mala in Jogia was named for an incarnation of Shiva?
Did you know that as a state legislator Ron Gomez, previously the radio voice of the ULL Ragin' Cajuns, worked to build the team's arena, the Cajundome, in Lafayette, Louisiana?
Did you know that by the Treaty of Vilnius (1561), Gotthard Kettler exchanged his office as Grand Master of the Livonian Order for that of a duke and Royal administrator?
Did you know that designer Vladimir Kagan, whose 1952 sofa was auctioned by Christie's for $190,000, created a facsimile for Room & Board in 2006 that sells for less than $1,900?
Did you know that fishing down the food web is resulting in a progressive worldwide decline in the fish stocks that are higher on the food chain?
Did you know that in 2006, ten percent of the membership of the Australian Watercolour Institute were recipients of Australia Honours?
Did you know that the "father of the Finnish written language" died when returning from the Treaty of Novgorod (1557)?
Did you know that the Australian Edithvale-Seaford Wetlands regularly support 1% of the East Asian – Australasian Flyway's population of the Sharp-tailed Sandpiper?
Did you know that the Japanese Kongō-class battlecruisers (Kongō pictured) were designed by British naval engineer George Thurston?
Did you know that the façade of the Igreja de Santo Ildefonso in Porto, Portugal, is covered in approximately 11,000 azulejos?
Did you know that the first hull loss of a Tupolev Tu-204 occurred when Aviastar-TU Flight 1906 crashed on approach to Domodedovo International Airport, Moscow, Russia, on 22 March 2010?
Did you know that the painting El Jaleo by John Singer Sargent is installed in a room constructed especially for it at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston?
Did you know that the tambouras, a Greek traditional string instrument of the lute family and ancestor of the bouzouki, features movable frets?
Did you know that 51 men were executed by Anglo-Saxons near Weymouth, Dorset, and interred in the Ridgeway Hill Viking burial pit in AD 910−1030?
Did you know that American football player Tom Hammond always played without protective padding, saying "I want them to feel my bones"?
Did you know that Fletcher Christian, leader of the Mutiny on the Bounty, was baptised in St Bridget's Church, Brigham, England, and that his tomb is in the churchyard?
Did you know that Judge Guy E. Humphries, Jr., of Alexandria, Louisiana, joined with two friends to form the Renaissance Home for Youth, an alternative to reform school for youthful offenders?
Did you know that Louisiana State Senator K.D. Kilpatrick of Ruston began working as a teenager in his family mortuary business after his father was incapacitated by a stroke?
Did you know that Seteng Ayele was the oldest track and field athlete at both the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that around 50% of adult Jews in Constantinople were subscribers of the Ladino language newspaper El Tiempo at the time of the First World War?
Did you know that before 2002, nobody had reported seeing a wild specimen of Impatiens denisonii, a rare balsam, since it was first described in 1862?
Did you know that feature models, initially conceived by feature-oriented domain analysis, are characterized as "the greatest contribution of domain engineering to software engineering"?
Did you know that from 1904 to 1907, artists' model Dorelia McNeill lived in a ménage à trois with Augustus John and his first wife Ida Nettleship?
Did you know that inventor and physicist Nikola Tesla decided on his career path after being impressed by laboratory experiments of his physics professor at Gymnasium Karlovac?
Did you know that the  Protestant church of Jistrum  in Friesland was prior to 1581 a Catholic church, when in one week it was stripped by iconoclasts?
Did you know that the Bering cisco migrates hundreds of miles up rivers without eating?
Did you know that the Italian pre-dreadnought battleship Re Umberto was modified in 1918 in preparation for her role as the lead ship in the planned attack on the main Austro-Hungarian naval base at Pola?
Did you know that the Jacob Kamm House in Portland, Oregon, was built with wooden siding and quoining to imitate stone?
Did you know that the author of the book Free Speech, "The People’s Darling Privilege" was recognized with the Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award?
Did you know that the earliest remains of architecture in Luxembourg are the Celtic buildings at Titelberg?
Did you know that the fate of an opossum in the Parks and Recreation episode "The Possum" has been described as an allegory for capital punishment?
Did you know that the locomotive involved in Sweden’s worst rail accident was later hit in an air raid near Korsør, Denmark, in 1943 after it had been overhauled and sold to the Danes?
Did you know that the television series Meet the Natives: USA shows five tribesmen from the island of Tanna playing golf, riding roller coasters, and getting pedicures?
Did you know that Bayne-Fowle House, a National Register of Historic Places registered property located at 811 Prince Street in Alexandra, Virginia, United States, served as a military hospital in 1864?
Did you know that Canada's first interchange was a cloverleaf opened in 1937 at the intersection of Highway 10 and The Middle Road?
Did you know that Charles Garvice, "the most successful novelist in England" in the period 1900–1920, sold millions of books annually but is virtually unknown today?
Did you know that Gordon L. Park worked around the globe as a petroleum engineer for Chevron before he settled in Wyoming and was elected in 1992 to the state legislature?
Did you know that Johnston Road in the former British settlement of Hong Kong was named after Alexander Robert Johnston, who served as acting administrator of the colony?
Did you know that Mexeflote rafts from the British Royal Logistic Corps were used to transport supplies to the remote Haitian village of Anse-à-Veau following the 2010 earthquake?
Did you know that New Zealand geologist Patrick Marshall was the first who used the term "andesite line"?
Did you know that President of the United States James A. Garfield knew both Latin and Greek, and could write both simultaneously with separate hands?
Did you know that Varzuga, one of the oldest documented permanent Russian settlements on the Kola Peninsula, was first mentioned in 1466?
Did you know that director Kōji Seki's 1967 pink film Perverted Criminal was Japan's first 3-D film, and the world's first 3-D sexploitation film?
Did you know that of the ten German battleships interned in Scapa Flow, only SMS Baden was not successfully scuttled on 21 July 1919?
Did you know that one of the causes of the May Revolution could have been that Napoleon crowned his own brother Joseph Bonaparte as the new Spanish King?
Did you know that the 13th-century font in Holy Trinity Church, Cuckfield reputedly suffered a large crack when a horse, stabled inside the church during the English Civil War, kicked it?
Did you know that the 2009 eponymous debut album Supercell by the J-pop/rock band of the same name contains songs not sung by a human?
Did you know that the Denisova Cave, where the finger bone of the Denisova hominin was found, is named after Dionisij, an 18th-century hermit?
Did you know that the Underwater Archaeology Branch has been involved in research on Error: {{Ship}} missing prefix (help) and CSS Alabama, and the search for USS Bonhomme Richard?
Did you know that three Major League Baseball pitchers—Charles Radbourn, John Clarkson and Guy Hecker—captured the National League wins title by collecting more than 50 victories in a single season?
Did you know that timbuwarra are anthropomorphic rattan figures produced by the Wiru people of Papua New Guinea?
Did you know that Bertie Ahern speaks Bertiespeak?
Did you know that Cliffe Castle Museum in Keighley, Yorkshire, boasts a wife-soothing cradle?
Did you know that Duke Dunne, an Olympic pentathlete and Michigan football captain, later presided over the sale of the Chicago White Sox to Bill Veeck and the Kansas City Athletics to Charlie Finley?
Did you know that Elvis is still alive and teaching soccer at Neil McNeil Catholic Secondary School?
Did you know that Frank Hansford-Miller, founder of the English National Party, emigrated to Australia?
Did you know that Holy Rosary Catholic Church in St. Marys, Ohio, was designated a historic site after its destruction?
Did you know that Leonid Malashkin was the true composer of Kodály's "Buttocks-Pressing Song"?
Did you know that Perth, Western Australia, got rid of ugly men in 1948?
Did you know that Pope John Paul II traveled more than all his predecessors combined?
Did you know that Professor Dirk Obbink is an expert on material from garbage heaps and charred remains?
Did you know that Robert Louis Stevenson took a pew from South Leith Parish Church?
Did you know that Ruth Belville and her parents had a business selling people Greenwich Mean Time?
Did you know that T. rex survives underground in Kenya?
Did you know that Tamil Hindu parents dedicate their one-month-old children to the goddess Periyachi, who is depicted ripping a woman's womb?
Did you know that Wikipedia covers the whole shebang?
Did you know that William Shakespeare was nicknamed "The Merchant of Menace"?
Did you know that between 1836 and 1846, the Congregationalist missionary Edward Stallybrass, who had proselytized in Siberia, published translations of the Old and the New Testament into Mongolian?
Did you know that buttock mail was a form of punishment for fornication, an alternative to the stool of repentance?
Did you know that humpbacked elves are rarely seen because their bodies are microscopic?
Did you know that in October 1968, Dumbo was arrested in Las Palmas, Spain?
Did you know that the American television show Glee was written with the aid of Screenwriting for Dummies?
Did you know that the Ilkley Museum in Yorkshire, England, is a notable habitat for Brunus edwardii?
Did you know that the Prada Store in Marfa, Texas, is never open?
Did you know that the cod Yorkshire dialect, one on't cross beams gone owt askew on treadle, in Monty Python's "Trouble at Mill" sketch actually means something?
Did you know that the diamond mine in Pomona, German South-West Africa, was the richest of its time, generating over a million carats between 1912 and 1914?
Did you know that the first Territorial Governor of Montana, Sidney Edgerton, fought as a Squirrel Hunter during the American Civil War?
Did you know that the materials used in the production of a Škoda Fabia car in 2007 included margarine and orange sugar paste?
Did you know that the yellow morel was once a Phallus?
Did you know that two Irish singers described as "tone deaf", and as "not very good" by British prime minister Gordon Brown, have been recently cited as more popular than The Beatles?
Did you know that Dope Stars Inc.'s debut album was originally titled New Breed of Digital Fuckers before they changed the title to Neuromance a few months before release?
Did you know that Hindu god Vishnu was cursed to take countless avatars because he committed the sin of woman-slaughter?
Did you know that James Brown flew an F-22 Raptor and survived a fuel leak while traveling at almost the speed of sound?
Did you know that Lauren Burns won Australia's first Olympic gold medal in taekwondo?
Did you know that Major League Baseball pitcher Jocko Thompson served in the United States military during World War II, where his platoon captured a bridge that was named after him 60 years later?
Did you know that Major Matthew Connolly was an expert on molluscs and the father of writer and critic Cyril Connolly?
Did you know that Martin Van Buren was over twenty feet wide?
Did you know that Max van Egmond recorded the bass arias of Bach's St Matthew Passion with Claudio Abbado and the words of Jesus with Gustav Leonhardt?
Did you know that Michele Amatore, who was a Sudanese slave, became a captain in the Bersaglieri regiment and was decorated for his work in Sicily?
Did you know that State of War is the debut novel written in 1988 by award-winning Filipino author Ninotchka Rosca?
Did you know that The Queen was captured by the Germans in 1916?
Did you know that a landmark court ruling has allowed Limerick pubs to sell alcohol today for the first time on Good Friday?
Did you know that a rain of blood in Germany foreshadowed the coming of the Black Death?
Did you know that actor, director, and film critic Pål Bang-Hansen is the only Norwegian to have interviewed John Lennon?
Did you know that binding selectivity is of major importance in biochemistry and in chemical separation processes?
Did you know that despite dying in battle and being beheaded, Máel Brigte of Moray still managed to kill his opponent Sigurd the Mighty, a 10th-century Earl of Orkney, as he rode home afterwards?
Did you know that genus Inimicus includes highly venomous benthic stonefishes, such as Inimicus filamentosus, which use their pectoral fins as legs to walk on the seabed?
Did you know that one of the frescoes found at the royal palace in Mari, Syria, depicts in the center the "investiture of Zimrilim" by a warrior-goddess, most probably Ishtar?
Did you know that researchers have identified the pictured life form which no longer lives on this planet?
Did you know that residents of Castleford, England, were incensed when their council tried to eliminate Tickle Cock?
Did you know that the Duke of Edinburgh won a recorded 95% of the vote in a Greek head of state election, but was never appointed?
Did you know that the GCV Infantry Fighting Vehicle will be a networked tactical fighting vehicle with non-lethal weapons and the ability to export electricity?
Did you know that the United States has 58 National Parks in 29 states and territories, the first of which was Yellowstone National Park, created in 1872?
Did you know that the author of the book on Scientology, The Road to Total Freedom, was investigated by an undercover agent for the Church of Scientology?
Did you know that the church in the Doly district of Karviná, Czech Republic, still holds Masses, despite leaning 6.8° due to extensive coal undermining?
Did you know that the citizens of Picoazá, Ecuador, elected foot powder as their mayor?
Did you know that the words of the 1974 song "Take Me to the River", written by Al Green, were described by musician David Byrne as combining "teenage lust with baptism – a potent blend"?
Did you know that when Scotsman Alistair Urquhart was a Japanese prisoner of war, he survived the building of the infamous Death Railway, the sinking of a Japanese hell ship, and the atomic bombing of Nagasaki?
Did you know that Arthur Schmidt told Red Army officers after the Battle of Stalingrad that "a German Field Marshal does not commit suicide with a pair of scissors"?
Did you know that Belmont Castle, an 18th century neo-Gothic mansion near Grays in the English county of Essex, was demolished in 1943 to make way for a chalk quarry?
Did you know that Broadway performer Idina Menzel's casting in the Glee episode "Hello" followed a fan campaign based on her resemblance to series star Lea Michele?
Did you know that Bupaya Pagoda, in Bagan in Myanmar was named for its gourd-shaped dome?
Did you know that Captain Richard Ashby, the brother of Confederate General Turner Ashby, was mortally wounded in battle and died in the ballroom at Washington Bottom Farm?
Did you know that F. Sionil José's Viajero (The Wanderer) is a novel about a Filipino boy adopted by an African-American soldier?
Did you know that Increase Mather, the early American Puritan preacher, ordered a copy of The London Jilt, a pornographic prose tale about a prostitute?
Did you know that Kenny Chesney was scheduled to film a music video for his song "The Tin Man" at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001?
Did you know that Leah Poulton scored an ODI century in her third match for Australia women's cricket team?
Did you know that Madonna licensed her entire music catalogue to the television series Glee, resulting in the tribute episode "The Power of Madonna"?
Did you know that Richard Packer's name is written on parchment stored in a glass cylinder underneath the corner stone in the foundation of the church of St Michael's Church School?
Did you know that SMS Brandenburg, launched on 21 September 1891, was the first pre-dreadnought battleship built for the German Imperial Navy?
Did you know that a 19th-century vicar of St Mary's Church in Slaugham, West Sussex, resolved a dispute about pews by paying some boys to enter the church and to burn them?
Did you know that according to a 2007 Australian national survey covering cannabis use in Australia, one-third of the population aged 14 years or older have tried the drug at least once?
Did you know that after USAC Stock Car champion Norm Nelson (car pictured) won his only NASCAR race at Las Vegas Park Speedway's only NASCAR race, the land was used for the Las Vegas Hilton?
Did you know that after being killed in Chechnya, lieutenant colonel Dmitry Medvedev was posthumously honoured by Vladimir Putin as a Hero of the Russian Federation?
Did you know that country music singer Darrell Clanton's single "I Forgot That I Don't Live Here Anymore" was boycotted by Mothers Against Drunk Driving?
Did you know that in Albanian mythology, when people go for a walk and step on a shtojzovalle they may get devoured by it?
Did you know that in the film Kommandør Treholt & ninjatroppen, real-life convicted spy Arne Treholt is presented as the leader of a band of ninjas who saved Norway during the Cold War?
Did you know that the English Parliament of 1388 was known as the Merciless Parliament for ordering the execution of many of the advisers and supporters of Richard II?
Did you know that the North Atlantic Current moderates the climate of Svalbard, giving it up to 20 °C (36 °F) higher winter temperatures than those at similar latitudes in Russia and Canada?
Did you know that the champagne producer Jacques Selosse uses a solera system for two of its wines, the same process used in sherry?
Did you know that the novels Tree, The Pretenders, and Mass are parts of F. Sionil José’s series The Rosales Saga?
Did you know that the title character of the comedy-drama series Ugly Betty finally has her braces removed in the season four episode "Million Dollar Smile"?
Did you know that 1980's Hurricane Karl evolved at the center of another, larger storm that occupied much of the North Atlantic, and set multiple records for its unusual location and date?
Did you know that Darlington F.C. lost in both the second and the third rounds of the FA Cup in the 1999–2000 season?
Did you know that Dave Winfield was drafted in 1973 as a pitcher by the San Diego Padres, but was elected to the Hall of Fame as an outfielder?
Did you know that Garth Stein, author of the bestselling book The Art of Racing in the Rain, had himself been a race car driver until he crashed while racing in the rain?
Did you know that Gordonstoun School is a Scottish boarding school famed for educating three generations of the British Royal Family, including the Duke of Edinburgh and Prince Charles?