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Did you know that German classical tenor Marcus Ullmann has taken part in the recording of all Lieder of Franz Schubert, more than 700, set to the poetry of over 115 writers?
Did you know that Josiah Royce was the first philosopher to address the idea of loyalty, although writers in other fields had previously considered the concept?
Did you know that Louisiana State Representative Cameron Henry in 2010 failed to gain approval of his proposed legislation to abolish his state's office of lieutenant governor?
Did you know that Military Road in Arlington County, Virginia, was built by U.S. Army troops in just three days?
Did you know that Robert S. Lancaster created the website StopSylvia.com because he found Sylvia Browne's claims of psychic knowledge about missing children to be "incredibly offensive"?
Did you know that Swedish physician Nils Rosén von Rosenstein is considered to be the founder of modern pediatrics with his 1764 book The diseases of children, and their remedies?
Did you know that along with the giant lacewings, the moth lacewing family (fossil pictured) are regarded as the most primitive living Neuroptera?
Did you know that although formally established by U.S. President Bill Clinton, the President’s Management Council has existed in various forms since the Reagan administration?
Did you know that area residents took legal action over the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Boston's construction of a large retreat house at the St. Methodios Faith and Heritage Center in Contoocook, New Hampshire?
Did you know that before "the mouth that roared" was mayor of Jersey City, he was vice-president of Hudson County Community College?
Did you know that in the 89-year history of the Royal Australian Air Force, only three officers have been promoted to air chief marshal, the service's highest active rank?
Did you know that in the history of Gaborone, the city was attacked by South Africa four times, in 1983, 1985, 1986 and 1988, after being accused of harboring African National Congress terrorists?
Did you know that reporting by Martin Waldron on how construction expenses for the Florida Turnpike quadrupled from original estimates earned the St. Petersburg Times its first Pulitzer Prize?
Did you know that the 19th-century mime Charles Deburau, son of the illustrious Jean Gaspard, played before adoring audiences in the French provinces—but found little success in Paris?
Did you know that the 2007 Indy Japan 300, an IndyCar Series at Twin Ring Motegi, was the only race in that series held outside North America?
Did you know that the Alma-class ironclads were designed by Henri Dupuy de Lôme as an improved version of the French ironclad Belliqueuse suitable for foreign deployments?
Did you know that the French ironclad Jeanne d'Arc (model pictured) was part of a squadron of French ships that attempted to blockade Prussian ports in the Baltic Sea in 1870, during the Franco-Prussian War?
Did you know that the Laurel Run Dam, an earthen embankment dam that failed during the 1977 Johnstown flood, caused a total of US$5.3 million in damages?
Did you know that the Northern Utina tribe took the forefront in the Timucua Rebellion of 1665, a revolt by several Timucua tribes against the colonial government of Spanish Florida?
Did you know that the historical Bibi-Heybat Mosque near Baku, Azerbaijan,, destroyed in 1934 as a result of the Soviet anti-religious campaign, was reopened in 1997 at the same location after the country gained independence?
Did you know that using concepts described in Sefer ha-Temunah the 13th-century Kabbalist Isaac ben Samuel calculated the age of the Universe, a number relatively close to the one estimated by NASA?
Did you know that "Woody" Hastings was one of the founders of circadian biology (circadian rhythms)?
Did you know that Admiral Sir John Byng was executed by firing squad on the quarterdeck of HMS Monarch?
Did you know that Ann Waldron initially wrote children's books, then turned to biographies of authors from the Southern United States, and at age 78 began writing murder mysteries set at Princeton University?
Did you know that Bryan Hextall of the New York Rangers scored the Stanley Cup-winning goal in 1940, their last championship for 54 years?
Did you know that Commelina sphaerorrhizoma, a south-central African dayflower, was first collected in 1906, but not formally described until 2009?
Did you know that French ironclad Alma blockaded the Prussian corvettes Hertha and Medusa in the Japanese port of Yokohama during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71?
Did you know that Kapyl, a town in modern Belarus, was listed in the atlas of Ortelius of 1574?
Did you know that Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani is on death row in Iran for the crime of adultery, and was originally to be executed by stoning?
Did you know that Tryon D. Lewis was elected in 2008 to the Texas House of Representatives as an ally of Speaker Tom Craddick, who was then toppled by intraparty rival Joe Straus?
Did you know that Wolf Point, which was part of the original 58-block 1830 plan of Chicago, was the original social center of the city and is now owned by the Kennedy family?
Did you know that a door-to-door salesman sold a US$1,700 Kirby vacuum cleaner to a woman with Alzheimer's who already owned one and lived alone in a mobile home?
Did you know that according to Hindu mythology, the "king of songs" Tumburu performed severe austerities to get a horse-face?
Did you know that according to the Gospel of Mark, Jesus was buried in one of the rock-cut tombs in ancient Israel?
Did you know that among the orienteering pioneers in IL Heming in the 1930s was Per Bergsland, one of the three men who escaped to freedom in the "Great Escape" from Stalag Luft III in 1944?
Did you know that civil engineer George Matthew McNaughton was involved with the construction of Silent Valley Reservoir in Northern Ireland?
Did you know that during the Vietnam War's Battles of Prek Klok I and II, 13 times more Viet Cong were killed than American troops?
Did you know that in 1942 only two men returned from Operation Anglo, the Special Boat Section raid on the island of Rhodes?
Did you know that in spite of hesitations due to the growing influence of Nazism in Germany, the International Federation of Trade Unions moved its headquarters to Berlin in 1931?
Did you know that one of her biographers called Agnes Mowinckel the mare of Norwegian theatre?
Did you know that patients of French physician Georges Phillipe Trousseau included a Hawaiian king, a Scottish author, and a Roman Catholic saint?
Did you know that recent molecular and morphological research has led to the identification of five species within the Malagasy bat species Miniopterus manavi—M. aelleni, M. brachytragos, M. griveaudi, M. mahafaliensis, and M. manavi itself?
Did you know that the Byzantine writer and diplomat Leo Choirosphaktes was imprisoned on his first embassy to Tsar Symeon of Bulgaria, but continued negotiations from his cell?
Did you know that the Dutch government created the Museum Maluku in Utrecht as a gift to the Moluccan community in the Netherlands?
Did you know that the French ironclad Reine Blanche bombarded the Tunisian port of Sfax during 5–16 July 1881 as part of the French occupation of Tunisia?
Did you know that the VW Beetle's Think Small has been called the best North American advertising campaign of the 20th century?
Did you know that there are more than 50 protected natural areas in Colombia, including: Cali, "El mono Hernández", Estoraques, Hermosas, McBean, Munchique, Nevados, Puracé, Rosario y San Bernardo, Salamanca, Santa Marta, Tamá and Tuparro?
Did you know that "Lovin' Her Was Easier (Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again)", originally a pop hit for Kris Kristofferson, was also a country music hit for Roger Miller and Tompall & the Glaser Brothers?
Did you know that Albanian film director Dhimitër Anagnosti, winner of many national and international awards, is also the screenwriter of most of the films he directs?
Did you know that Alsatian architect François Spoerry was an advocate of vernacular architecture?
Did you know that DirectHit is the only accurate pharmacodiagnostic test to determine possible treatment outcomes of anticancer chemotherapy drugs for breast cancer?
Did you know that Gloria J. Romero is leading a campaign in the California Legislature to remove serpentine as the official state rock because it is a source of cancer-causing asbestos?
Did you know that Hans-Joachim Bohlmann vandalized more than 50 artworks worth more than 130 million euros, including Dürer's Paumgartner Altar (fragment pictured)?
Did you know that Oregon judge Marco A. Hernandez has been nominated to serve in the federal courts by both presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama?
Did you know that Scottish actor Richard Madden began his career at age 11 when he was cast in the film Complicity, followed by his 1999 role in the BBC television series Barmy Aunt Boomerang?
Did you know that Tranquil Star is the only mare to have won the double of the Caulfield Stakes, now known as the Yalumba Stakes, and the Cox Plate?
Did you know that US Army soldiers march to the top of Hill 303 in Korea every year to place flowers commemorating the victims of the Hill 303 massacre of the Korean War (memorial pictured)?
Did you know that Uchchaihshravas is declared the king of horses in Hindu mythology?
Did you know that Zbigniew Babiński, a Polish military and sports aviator who constructed gliders before WWI, was one of the victims of the Katyn massacre?
Did you know that professional baseball player Pat Osburn's brother-in-law was Milt May, and father-in-law was Florida State Senator Wilbur H. Boyd?
Did you know that six members of the North Carolina General Assembly compete in milk chugging?
Did you know that stage lighting accessories include barn doors, top hats and doughnuts?
Did you know that the Butterfield Cobblestone House, considered the finest Greek Revival building in Orleans County, New York, is the only cobblestone building in Clarendon?
Did you know that the Colorado River's first dam and reclamation project suffered through major floods in 1912 and 1916 along with an earthquake in 1940?
Did you know that the Norwegian teen film Amors Baller will include scenes shot at the 2010 Norway Cup, one of the world's largest football tournaments?
Did you know that the anonymous Latin poem Ecbasis captivi is the oldest surviving example of a European beast epic, and contains the first medieval European example of anthropomorphic animals?
Did you know that the anti-Nazi resistance group "Olimp", organized in 1941 by members of the Polish minority in Wrocław, was named after Mount Olympus because of their main meeting place?
Did you know that the cast stone façade of Tucson, Arizona's Cathedral of Saint Augustine uses indigenous desert plants as a design motif?
Did you know that the extinct ant-like stone beetle Kachinus, found in Cretaceous amber, is similar in appearance to the modern genus Paraneseuthia?
Did you know that the geisha would rub nightingale droppings on their faces to help remove their heavy makeup?
Did you know that the only action seen by the French ironclad Montcalm during the Franco-Prussian War was the capture of a German barque?
Did you know that the security procedures at the Federal Detention Center in Miami prevented an attorney from meeting a client because her underwire bra set off a metal detector?
Did you know that world champion triathlete Emma Carney was diagnosed with the life-threatening condition ventricular tachycardia and is fitted with a defibrillator?
Did you know that , although police later found the getaway car used in the murder of Morris Kessler, the crime remained unsolved?
Did you know that , despite its lack of dedicated tourism infrastructure, 12 cruise ships docked at Da Nang Port in January and February 2010 alone, carrying 6,477 passengers?
Did you know that , though critically injured in a 1944 blast that was "perhaps then the largest release in history of radioactive materials", Arnold Kramish credited his survival to his mother's chicken soup?
Did you know that 1,200 journalists, human rights advocates, and leftist activists have been killed in the Philippines as a result of Gloria Arroyo's counter-insurgency program "Oplan Bantay Laya"?
Did you know that Amar Ramasar, a principal danseur of the New York City Ballet, took his first dance lessons at the Henry Street Settlement House?
Did you know that Bob Dylan wrote "Tonight I'll Be Staying Here with You" in two days at a Ramada Inn in February 1969?
Did you know that Emperor Alexander III of Russia provided funding for the construction of a Russian Orthodox church on Bredgade in Copenhagen at the behest of his Danish-born empress?
Did you know that George Washington's step-granddaughter Elizabeth Parke Custis married Thomas Law in 1796 at Hope Park plantation in Fairfax County, Virginia?
Did you know that Huasca de Ocampo is home to one of three major formations of columnar basalt?
Did you know that Irish-American banker Sam McBirney coached a football team from a college with 400 students to a 16–0 win that broke the Oklahoma Sooners' 18-game winning streak?
Did you know that Joe Plumeri, CEO of Willis Group Holdings, got his start in 1968 by accidentally interviewing with future Citigroup CEO Sandy Weill at what he mistakenly thought was a law firm?
Did you know that John T. Gregorio resigned from the New Jersey Senate's 20th Legislative District after a conspiracy conviction for concealing his ownership of two go go bars operated by his son?
Did you know that SteelPath is the first investment firm to offer master limited partnership mutual funds?
Did you know that Thomas J. Deverin proposed a bill requiring New Jersey public schools to begin with a daily period of silent meditation, which both opponents and supporters saw as reintroducing school prayer?
Did you know that Victorian cricketer Merv Harvey captained his brothers Ray and Neil twice in the same match, and another brother, Mick, also played for the state?
Did you know that a drawing resembling a penis by Andy Warhol may be on the moon?
Did you know that actress Jamie Sorrentini was directed by Harold Prince in the U.S. national tour of the musical Parade?
Did you know that one of the Stone Age Lancken-Granitz dolmens (entrance pictured) was used as a shelter by the East German army?
Did you know that retired baseball coach Jacke Davis had five players he coached at Panola College go on to play in Major League Baseball?
Did you know that sleepy sponge crabs carry sponges on their back as camouflage, and have even used the sole of a shoe for that purpose?
Did you know that the 5830 metre high mountain of Altun Shan was formed at a bend in the Altyn Tagh fault?
Did you know that the Cathedral of St. John Berchmans in Shreveport, Louisiana, is one of only a few churches in the world named after St. John Berchmans?
Did you know that the German battleship SMS Kaiser damaged the British battleship HMS Warspite at the Battle of Jutland in 1916, forcing the Warspite to withdraw from the battle?
Did you know that the Rivadavia-class battleships were the subject of a fierce competition between France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States?
Did you know that the first public library in Cardiff, which opened in 1861, is the first public library in Wales?
Did you know that the football club Stålkameratene were expelled from their league in 1997, only to score 153 league goals the next year?
Did you know that there are two Baffin Bays in North America, one containing about a million times more water than the other?
Did you know that "Everyone", the official theme song of the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics held in Singapore, was sung by five different artistes each representing his or her continent?
Did you know that Australian Test cricket umpire Colin Egar received death threats after no-balling Ian Meckiff for an illegal bowling action?
Did you know that Black Tusk, a band that describes its music as "swamp metal," was formed when its members were all living on the same street?
Did you know that British actress Christine McKenna starred in the 1979 series Flambards but is now a television producer in the United States?
Did you know that Democrat Mayor Thomas G. Dunn, national co-chairman of Democrats for Nixon, was "read out of the party" for his support of Republican President Richard Nixon's 1972 re-election bid?
Did you know that Friedrich Münter was the first Protestant to receive a doctorate of philosophy at the University of Fulda?
Did you know that Len Dunderdale finished the 1938–39 season as Watford Football Club's top scorer, despite joining Leeds United during the season?
Did you know that Mark Gosling served for almost two years as Colonial Secretary of New South Wales, despite having only a primary education?
Did you know that Paul Coe attempted to bring an aboriginal title class action claiming the entirety of Australia?
Did you know that Stu Wilkins, an offensive guard on Michigan's 1947 "Mad Magicians" team, was a leader in establishing the Pro Football Hall of Fame in his hometown of Canton, Ohio?
Did you know that after failing to engage two French warships, Captain Savage Mostyn demanded that he be tried by court-martial?
Did you know that as Azerbaijan Commissar of Public Roads, Chingiz Ildyrym oversaw the construction of the first electrified railway in the Soviet Union?
Did you know that during Operation Junction City, the Viet Cong launched separate battles on the same night at Ap Bau Bang and Suoi Tre, but lost more than 25 times as many men as their opponents?
Did you know that in 1944 British agents kidnapped a German general on the German occupied island of Crete?
Did you know that in 1985, Member of the Walloon Parliament Bernard Anselme authored a decree establishing the city of Namur as the capital of Wallonia?
Did you know that it has been claimed that the Citadel of Arbil is the oldest continuously inhabited site in the world?
Did you know that only Air Greenland and Air Iceland operate at Nuuk Airport?
Did you know that pannage was a valuable right in the former royal Forest of Galtres in North Yorkshire, England?
Did you know that the Chimakum tribe of Native Americans were wiped out in 1847 by a Suquamish war party led by Chief Seattle, for whom the city of Seattle was later named?
Did you know that the Gunai indigenous people of Gippsland practiced controlled burning to induce the edible kangaroo apple to grow and bear fruit?
Did you know that the Queen's executioner lives in Windsor Great Park and feeds on weevils and nectar?
Did you know that the cap surface of the mushroom Strobilomyces foveatus is covered with scales, while the spore surface is covered with spines?
Did you know that the extinct Chamaecyparis eureka is the oldest confirmed member of the genus Chamaecyparis?
Did you know that the listed buildings in Rivington include a replica of Liverpool Castle and the Pigeon Tower?
Did you know that three Adena burial mounds (one pictured) are scattered around the village of Zaleski, Ohio?
Did you know that , in Mesopotamian mythology, Labbu was a lion-serpent from the sea, slain by Tishpak, protector-god of Eshnunna?
Did you know that Codex Cyprius is one of the very few uncial manuscripts with the complete text of the four Gospels?
Did you know that Cully Cobb, who grew up as a poor Tennessee farm boy, became a major agricultural publisher and co-founder of the Cobb Institute of Archeology at Mississippi State University?
Did you know that Danish geologist Hinrich Johannes Rink was the founder of Atuagagdliutit, the first Kalaallisut language newspaper?
Did you know that Elgin Gould, who recommended entrepreneurs build working-class communities serviced by streetcars on the outskirts of major cities, was killed in a horseback riding accident?
Did you know that Hercules Renda was described as a "midget from the hills of West Virginia" who "ran, squirmed and tackled" his way into the hearts of Michigan football fans in the 1930s?
Did you know that Louisiana State Rep. Ernest Wooton has challenged Governor Bobby Jindal's claim of confidentiality to many executive department documents?
Did you know that Nepalese communist politician Narayan Man Bijukchhe has won a parliamentary seat in every national election since the 1990 Jana Andolan?
Did you know that Steven Mithen speculates that the Neanderthals (rendition pictured) had a musical linguistic system which he calls "hmmmmm"?
Did you know that William Munro, 12th Baron of Foulis, led a force of 900 men in a battle that historians are not sure ever took place?
Did you know that after Bolesław Krzywousty defeated Pomeranian dukes at the Battle of Nakło he gave Swietopelk Nakielski Nakło, and other grods (Slavic settlements) on the river Noteć as a fief?
Did you know that emergency surgery was required to save Trent McCleary's life after he was hit in the throat by a slapshot during a National Hockey League game?
Did you know that in 1938 Nazi authorities Germanized over 1,500 place names in East Prussia?
Did you know that long-time NFL scout Ralph Kohl was considered the top "judge of football flesh" in BLESTO, the scouting combine of the Bears-Lions-Eagles-Steelers Talent Organization?
Did you know that the Chicago Cubs have had the first selection in Major League Baseball's entry draft only once in the draft's 45-year history?
Did you know that the Pittsburgh Wayfinder System is composed of more than 1,500 traffic signs that point the way to popular destinations in the City of Pittsburgh?
Did you know that the River Raisin National Battlefield Park will preserve the site of the United States' deadliest defeat in the War of 1812?
Did you know that the Salmon Creek Dam in Juneau, the capital of Alaska, was built in 1914 and was the world's first constant-angle arch dam?
Did you know that the builder of the Skinner-Tinkham House in Barre Center, New York, paid some of his mortgage to the Holland Land Company in cattle?
Did you know that the first hoard in Pembrokeshire from the Civil War was found whilst building a tennis court at Tregwynt Mansion?
Did you know that the former Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig was one of two US battalion commanders in the Battle of Ap Gu during the Vietnam War?
Did you know that the music video for the Kinks' "Don't Forget to Dance" reprised the band playing themselves on a ballroom stage from their previous video, "Come Dancing"?
Did you know that the phrase "pass with flying colors" comes from ships sailing into port?
Did you know that the term "echolocation" was coined in 1944 by Donald Griffin, whose work with Robert Galambos was the first to conclusively demonstrate its existence in bats as a tool for navigation?
Did you know that the world's first looping roller coasters were tested with eggs, flowers, glasses of water, and even a monkey before human riders were allowed?
Did you know that though widowed and in poor health, Princess Marie of Reuss was second-in-line to the Dutch throne from 1900 to 1909, pending the death of her then-childless cousin Queen Wilhelmina?
Did you know that , in the 18th and 19th centuries, members of Friendly Societies in the west of England would hold annual parades carrying poles topped by elaborate brass emblems?
Did you know that Calakmul was one of the largest and most powerful Maya cities?
Did you know that Darryl Dawkins and Bill Willoughby were the first high school basketball players to directly enter the National Basketball Association after they were drafted in 1975?
Did you know that Dr. Hallowell Davis, credited with coining the term "audiology", donated his inner ear to the Central Institute for the Deaf?
Did you know that György Ligeti dedicated his Hamburg Concerto to German hornplayer Marie Luise Neunecker, who premiered it in Hamburg with the Asko Ensemble?
Did you know that Mill Creek chert was one of the major exported raw materials of the Mississippian culture?
Did you know that Neri Colmenares, today a member of the Congress of the Philippines, was one of the youngest political prisoners during the rule of Ferdinand Marcos?