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Did you know that the historic Wayne Morse Farm in Eugene, Oregon, was the home of Wayne Morse who represented Oregon in the United States Senate from 1944 until 1968?
Did you know that the wide variety of people who have been deported from the United States includes Jamaican boxer Trevor Berbick, political activist Emma Goldman, and Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh?
Did you know that "Still Alive", the theme to action-adventure video game Mirror's Edge, was written by Rami Yacoub, who has also written material for Britney Spears?
Did you know that Bert Olmstead played 14 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) and appeared in 11 Stanley Cup finals?
Did you know that Chicago alderman Sandi Jackson transferred from Georgetown University Law Center to University of Illinois College of Law to be with her future husband, U.S. Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr.?
Did you know that Greenville Presbyterian Church was the first non-Dutch church established in New York's Catskill region?
Did you know that Hugo Bettauer, author of a satire depicting Vienna after expulsion of its Jews, was shot and killed in 1925 after Nazis branded him a "Red poet" and "corruptor of youth"?
Did you know that John Daly, a New York City criminal, was rumored to be paying $100,000 a week in protection money to the New York Police Department in the late 1800s?
Did you know that Maharana Pratap Sagar or Pong Dam Lake, created by the highest earthfill dam in India on the Beas River, intercepts migratory birds on their trans-Himalayan fly path during each migration season?
Did you know that Manitowoc, Wisconsin, held a "Sputnikfest" in 2008 to celebrate a piece of the Soviet Sputnik 4 spacecraft that crashed near the Rahr West Art Museum in 1962?
Did you know that according to British wine critic Jancis Robinson, only certain wines can improve significantly with age, and most wine is consumed too late rather than too early?
Did you know that after testing the biological Brucella cluster bomb on 11,000 guinea pigs, a U.S. general remarked "Now we know what to do if we ever go to war against guinea pigs"?
Did you know that before she was disassembled for scrap in 1932, USS Holland, the first submarine commissioned by the U.S. Navy, spent many years as an attraction in Starlight amusement park in New York City?
Did you know that in 1967, the M139 bomblet (interior pictured) was tested in Hawaii using live Sarin nerve agent?
Did you know that in Norse mythology, Sinmara is a female companion of Surtr, a fire jötunn?
Did you know that most of the world's population of Northern Bald Ibis, an endangered species of birds, are found at Souss-Massa National Park in Morocco?
Did you know that oil company Idemitsu Kosan is exploring the potential for geothermal power in Japan?
Did you know that species from the underground-dwelling mushroom genus Gautieria are the preferred food source of the Northern flying squirrel?
Did you know that the Flekkefjord Line was built to be part of the main line from Stavanger to Oslo, but a change of plans made it only a branch line?
Did you know that the M143 bomblet held the equivalent of 300 million lethal doses of anthrax?
Did you know that the National Guard Militia Museum of New Jersey has on display the Intelligent Whale, an experimental Civil War-era submarine propelled by a hand crank operated by its four-man crew?
Did you know that the World Charter for Prostitutes' Rights, adopted in 1985, calls for the right to unemployment insurance and decriminalization of adult prostitution?
Did you know that the graphical plot of the Sabatier principle, a concept used in chemical catalysis, is often called a "volcano plot" because of its distinctive shape?
Did you know that the soil-dwelling nematode-killing fungus Paecilomyces lilacinus has been known to cause human eye infections?
Did you know that the symptoms of exposure to the blister agent methyldichloroarsine clinically resemble poison ivy?
Did you know that when asked what the most beautiful place he had ever seen in all his travels was, Gore Vidal chose the view from the belvedere at Villa Cimbrone?
Did you know that American colonialists James Franklin and Ann Smith Franklin established Rhode Island's first printing press?
Did you know that Carl D. Keith and John J. Mooney co-invented the three-way catalytic converter, which has cut nitrogen oxide emissions from cars by 98 percent since the 1970s?
Did you know that George Julian Zolnay, the so-called "sculptor of the Confederacy," was actually Hungarian and did not move to the United States until decades after the Confederacy had ceased to exist?
Did you know that Hans Eworth was a Flemish artist of the Tudor court known for his allegorical paintings and his portraits of Queen Mary I?
Did you know that Imperial Japanese Navy submarine Commander Takakazu Kinashi was awarded the Iron Cross by Adolf Hitler for his role in the sinking of the American aircraft carrier Wasp?
Did you know that Indian historian and Dravidologist K. A. Nilakanta Sastri served as the Director of UNESCO's Institute of Traditional Culture?
Did you know that NASDA's ETS-VII was the world's first satellite to be equipped with a robotic arm and to conduct autonomous rendezvous docking operations successfully?
Did you know that Suraj Tal, the highest lake in India, may be reached by National Highway NH-21, the highest mountain road in the world?
Did you know that Whitcomb L. Judson is recognized as the inventor of the zipper?
Did you know that actor Don Collier, who co-starred on NBC's western series Outlaws and The High Chaparral, played football for the Brigham Young Cougars?
Did you know that as Director of the Voice of America, Henry Loomis oversaw the introduction of Special English, in which news is read slowly with a limited vocabulary of about 1,500 words and a simplified grammar?
Did you know that by Christmas Eve 1942, the German 17th Panzer Division had only eight tanks and one anti-tank gun left after its failed attempt to break through to Stalingrad?
Did you know that film directors Sidney Meyers and Jay Leyda used pseudonyms for their screen credits on the 1937 production People of the Cumberland?
Did you know that football player Michael Liddle made his international debut for Republic of Ireland under-19s although he was born in London, England?
Did you know that from 1962 to 1973, the Deseret Test Center in Fort Douglas, Utah, oversaw 46 tests using simulants and live biological and chemical agents?
Did you know that in 1899, Chinese immigration to Puerto Rico was prohibited by the United States Chinese Exclusion Act?
Did you know that in the Ofira Air Battle, at the outset of the Yom Kippur War, two Israeli F-4 Phantom IIs shot down seven Egyptian MiGs?
Did you know that nephrotoxic djenkolic acid, found in the raw djenkol bean, can form needle-like crystals in the urine of people who eat the bean?
Did you know that the Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary formerly used Police Motu, a lingua franca pidgin of Motu, as its working language?
Did you know that the Sayre Fire resulted in the worst loss of homes due to fire in the history of Los Angeles, surpassing the loss of 484 residences in the 1961 Bel Air fire?
Did you know that the Soviet Union annexed Western Ukraine in 1939 following the invasion of Poland and an ultimatum to Romania?
Did you know that the author of Autism's False Prophets, a critique of claims that autism is linked to vaccines, reportedly received death threats?
Did you know that the church of Valmagne Abbey in south-central France has been used as a wine cave since the abbey was confiscated and sold during the French Revolution?
Did you know that the critically endangered Golden White-eye of Saipan is threatened by a snake that eliminated practically all the forest birds of nearby Guam?
Did you know that the metabolic disorder Schindler disease may be caused by mutations in the NAGA gene on chromosome 22?
Did you know that the music video for Sia Furler's latest single "Soon We'll Be Found" features American Sign Language?
Did you know that the small bright-blue mushroom Entoloma hochstetteri is featured on the reverse side of the New Zealand $50 bank note?
Did you know that though communism was created by an atheist, communism and religion have not always had a hostile relationship?
Did you know that 99 percent of Japanese municipalities collect and recycle steel cans despite not being required by law, giving the country one of the world's highest recycling rates for these cans? (Japanese recycling bins pictured)
Did you know that Admiral Shigeyoshi Miwa commanded Imperial Japanese Navy submarine forces during the attack on Pearl Harbor?
Did you know that Anita Bryant's participation in Save Our Children, a coalition working to overturn gay rights ordinances in Miami and other cities in 1977 and 1978, destroyed her career?
Did you know that Anna Vissi, who represented Greece at the Eurovision Song Contest 2006, has participated in the contest three times over a 26 year period?
Did you know that Augustin Trébuchon, the last French soldier to die in the First World War, was shot 15 minutes before the war ended?
Did you know that Begonia boliviensis, one of the species used the production of the first hybrid tuberous begonia raised in England, was introduced from Bolivia by the Victorian plant collector Richard Pearce?
Did you know that Leo the Mathematician, called by some the cleverest man in 9th-century Byzantium, invented a system of beacons to warn of Arab raids and a fabled levitating throne for the emperor?
Did you know that Major League Baseball pitchers Jim Palmer and Mike Mussina each made six Opening Day starts for the Baltimore Orioles?
Did you know that Tang Dynasty chancellor Li Mi declined chancellor appointments by Emperor Suzong and Emperor Daizong, eventually only accepting it under Emperor Dezong?
Did you know that William Blake's The Wood of the Self-Murderers is based on a passage from Dante's Divine Comedy in which bird-human hybrids feed on the leaves of trees  entombing suicides?
Did you know that actor Jesse Plemons had to get 11 stitches in his chin after offering to do his own stunts on Friday Night Lights?
Did you know that after the Victoria Cross began to be awarded to Royal Air Force members, navy members who had won it were required to replace their traditional blue ribbons with red ones?
Did you know that current Colorado Rockies minor league catching instructor Marv Foley is the only baseball manager to win championships in the International League, Pacific Coast League, and American Association?
Did you know that in 2007, Vicki Berger played a major role in amending the Oregon Bottle Bill, which her own father had created 36 years earlier?
Did you know that inhibitors of the enzyme dipeptidyl peptidase-4 can prevent the degradation of gastrointestinal hormones that regulate insulin release from the pancreas, making them effective anti-diabetic drugs?
Did you know that the M115 anti-crop bomb was known as the "feather bomb" because it dropped feathers laced with fungal spores in order to spread wheat stem rust?
Did you know that the Montecito Tea Fire, which destroyed more than 200 homes in California, was caused by smoldering embers from a bonfire party at an abandoned tea house?
Did you know that the Nassak Diamond (replica pictured), pillaged in the 1800s from a Hindu temple where it had resided for 300 years, was later used as a gimmick to attract partygoers to a 1976 benefit?
Did you know that the Pacific Electric Railroad Bridge in Torrance, California is used as a symbol on the patch of the local police department?
Did you know that the rare skin disorder ichthyosis bullosa of Siemens may be caused by a spontaneous mutation in the keratin 2e gene on chromosome 12?
Did you know that the white deer of the Seneca Army Depot in Seneca County, New York, is the largest herd of white deer in the world?
Did you know that when rival colleague Zhang Yanshang suggested the Tang Dynasty chancellor Liu Hun be more silent, Liu commented that his tongue would not stop even if he were decapitated?
Did you know that Arne Sunde, Norwegian Olympian, politician and World War II veteran, was President of the United Nations Security Council at the start of the Korean War?
Did you know that Don Bradman, universally regarded as the greatest batsman in cricket history, made a duck in his final Test innings?
Did you know that HMS Mahratta delivered a bathtub to Murmansk during World War II?
Did you know that John B. Curtis made the first commercially available chewing gum?
Did you know that Julian Konstantinov, the brother of Bulgarian volleyball team captain Plamen Konstantinov, is an opera singer?
Did you know that Papyrus 110, a Greek manuscript copy of the Gospel of Matthew from the New Testament, may have been composed as early as the 3rd century?
Did you know that SM U-4, commissioned in 1909, was the longest serving U-boat of the Austro-Hungarian Navy?
Did you know that Sir John Luttrell, an English soldier and diplomat under Henry VIII and Edward VI, was the subject of an allegorical portrait by Hans Eworth celebrating peace with France and Scotland?
Did you know that Static Major featured in Lil Wayne's 2008 hit single "Lollipop" but died before the song was released in Tha Carter III?
Did you know that Weraroa, a genus of pouch fungi, may represent an intermediate evolutionary stage between underground and above-ground fungi?
Did you know that a siphon (example pictured) is used by some marine snails for tasting, by some clams for reproducing, and by octopuses for jet propulsion?
Did you know that although opera singer Rita Fornia began her career as a coloratura soprano, her voice lowered and darkened causing her to sing mostly mezzo-soprano roles?
Did you know that as a result of the 2006 Pine Middle School shooting in Reno, Nevada, 14-year-old shooter James Newman was sentenced to house arrest and 200 hours of community service?
Did you know that at the same time Francis "Mother" Dunn was coaching Dickinson College's football team, he was also playing professional football for the Canton Bulldogs under Jim Thorpe?
Did you know that during the German occupation of Norway, Astrid Løken combined entomological field research with secret photography for the resistance group XU?
Did you know that for his 2004 film Drum, director Zola Maseko received the top prize at FESPACO, the Golden Stallion of Yennenga, in addition to a cash prize of 10 million CFA francs (US$20,000)?
Did you know that former Key West mayor Captain Tony Tarracino was a subject of Cuba Crossing, a 1980 film about a plot to kill Fidel Castro, and of the 1985 Jimmy Buffett song "Last Mango in Paris"?
Did you know that in addition to being a general in the Union Army, James Sanks Brisbin was also a prolific writer, and authored several works on a variety of subjects?
Did you know that the 1902 discovery of gold in Interior Alaska by Italian immigrant Felix Pedro marked the start of the Fairbanks Gold Rush?
Did you know that the 1978 Orson Welles-directed documentary Filming Othello has never been theatrically released or presented on home video?
Did you know that the Confederate Monument in Murray, Kentucky, is the only Civil War Monument in Kentucky to prominently feature Robert E. Lee?
Did you know that the Związek Organizacji Wojskowej, a Polish resistance group inside the Auschwitz concentration camp, provided the first intelligence about the Holocaust to the Western Allies?
Did you know that the deaths of two pirates during the November 11, 2008 incident off Somalia, are believed to be the first time since the 1982 Falklands War that the Royal Navy has killed anyone on the high seas?
Did you know that there are 94 buildings with listed status in Crawley, England, including The Beehive, a circular Art Deco building that was the world's first integrated airport terminal?
Did you know that C/1743 X1, the Great Comet of 1744, is thought to have been the sixth intrinsically brightest on record and went on to develop six tails?
Did you know that Cyclone Rosie was the first ever tropical cyclone to be monitored by the Tropical Cyclone Warning Center in Jakarta?
Did you know that Dr. Jay Katz, who escaped from Nazi Germany to the U.S. in the 1930s, opposed use of data from Nazi human experimentation, because "we cannot separate the data from the way they were obtained"?
Did you know that Harald N. S. Wergeland, Lieutenant General and Norwegian Minister of the Army, was raised by his uncle Nicolai Wergeland and enrolled at the Norwegian Military Academy at the age of twelve?
Did you know that Major League Baseball manager John McGraw had 2,583 wins as the New York Giants' manager?
Did you know that Mount Wycheproof, standing just 43 metres (141 ft) high, is the smallest registered mountain in the world?
Did you know that Pamela Munizzi succeeded John P. Daley, the son of former Chicago Mayor Richard J., brother of current Mayor Richard M., in office in both the Illinois House of Representatives and the Illinois Senate?
Did you know that Parkmill in Gower, South Wales, is now the home of La Charrette, the smallest cinema in Wales?
Did you know that Susan Crawford and Kevin Werbach have been selected by President-elect Barack Obama to lead the review of the Federal Communications Commission?
Did you know that The Blood of Jesus was the first race film added to the U.S. National Film Registry?
Did you know that Toralv Øksnevad was known as the "voice from London" during the Second World War, when listening to foreign radio was a crime punishable by death in Norway?
Did you know that Walter Scott Lenox produced the first set of American-made china dishware for the White House?
Did you know that after initially deciding not to air the Roseanne episode "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" because it included Mariel Hemingway kissing Roseanne Barr, ABC promoted it as "the lesbian kiss episode"?
Did you know that artist Adam Neate left 1,000 prints, valued at £1 million, on London streets for anyone to pick up and keep?
Did you know that even though the Flettner rotor bomblet was never mass-produced, William C. Patrick III called it "one of the better devices for disseminating microorganisms"?
Did you know that for the 1967 television documentary CBS Reports: The Homosexuals, the network concealed the identity of one of the gay interview subjects by seating him behind a potted palm tree?
Did you know that opera superstar Giuseppe Cremonini's career was tragically cut short upon his sudden death at the age of 36?
Did you know that some anti-obesity drugs, such as Rimonabant, are chemical compounds designed to specifically block cannabinoid receptors?
Did you know that the Catskill Escarpment is the only clearly defined boundary of the Catskill Mountains?
Did you know that the empire ruled by Agustín I of Mexico lasted less than one year?
Did you know that the leader of the 2004 Palm Island, Queensland riot, Lex Wotton, ran for mayor while out on bail?
Did you know that the proposed Levenmouth rail link in Fife, Scotland, could be used by Scotch whisky distillery freight trains as well as by passengers?
Did you know that the single "Don't Tear It Down" from Spy vs Spy's album A.O. Mod. TV. Vers. was inspired by a government agency's attempts to demolish a building the band were squatting in?
Did you know that the success of Gay Weddings as counterprogramming to Super Bowl XXXVII led television network Bravo to develop additional LGBT-interest programming, including Queer Eye and Boy Meets Boy?
Did you know that Amazon.co.uk stopped selling The Complex: An Insider Exposes the Covert World of the Church of Scientology after receiving a legal letter from Scientology?
Did you know that Father Goose: His Book, an 1899 collection of poetry for children and considered at the time a liberal portrayal of multi-cultural America, is now seen as stereotyped, racist and offensive?
Did you know that French explorer Robert de LaSalle was murdered by a member of his own expedition while trying to locate the Mississippi River in 1687?
Did you know that INS Tabar, a Talwar class frigate, has escorted about 35 ships through the pirate-infested waters near the Horn of Africa?
Did you know that Indigenous Australian actor Brandon Walters had never heard of Nicole Kidman or Hugh Jackman when he signed on to co-star with them in Australia?
Did you know that Irworobongdo is a Korean folding screen with a stylized landscape painting for symbolizing the political cosmology of the Joseon Dynasty?
Did you know that Italian mezzo-soprano Flora Perini originated the role of the Princess in the world premiere of Puccini's Suor Angelica at the Metropolitan Opera in 1918?
Did you know that Les West's cycle racing career spanned 47 years from 1960 to 2006, and included two victories in the Tour of Britain?
Did you know that Mahatma Gandhi participated in the recovery and treatment of the wounded in the Second Boer War at the Battle of Colenso and Battle of Spion Kop?
Did you know that Michigan highway M-97 was simultaneously named both Reid Highway and Groesbeck Highway by different levels of government from 1927 until 1949, the year it was dedicated to Alex Groesbeck?
Did you know that Natsume Sōseki's 1905 novel Kairo-kō is the earliest, and only major, prose treatment of the Arthurian legend in the Japanese language?
Did you know that Phil Johnson and Cotton Fitzsimmons are the only Sacramento Kings head coaches to have won NBA Coach of the Year?
Did you know that after serving as a volunteer during the Mexican-American War, James W. McMillan returned to private life but still became a General during the American Civil War?
Did you know that in its second year after scholarship probation, the 2009–10 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team has four blue chip letter of intent signees?
Did you know that painter T. E. Breitenbach's work Proverbidioms appeared on the TV show Beverly Hills, 90210?
Did you know that research by physician I. Bernard Weinstein investigated the cancer-causing potential of such foods as barbecued and cured meat?
Did you know that soprano Cesira Ferrani originated two of the most iconic roles in opera history, Mimì in the world premiere of Puccini's La bohème and the title role in the premiere of Puccini's Manon Lescaut?
Did you know that the 1806 settlement of Chinese in Trinidad was the first organised settlement of Chinese people in the Caribbean, preceding the importation of Chinese-indentured labour by over 40 years?
Did you know that the Knight Foundry in Sutter Creek, California, is the last water-powered foundry in the United States?
Did you know that the Minatogawa Man is among the oldest complete skeletons of modern humans recovered in East Asia?
Did you know that the book The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives explores U.S. military expenditures on items including Southern catfish restaurants and Dunkin' Donuts?
Did you know that the first registered clinical use of an NK1 receptor blocker was the treatment of nausea and vomiting induced by chemotherapy?
Did you know that the human bocavirus is the fourth most commonly found virus in samples collected from the respiratory system?
Did you know that the mysterious rebel known as The Hidden claimed to be a secret prince given a divine revelation to save Spain in the Revolt of the Brotherhoods?
Did you know that the park Ravnedalen in Kristiansand, Norway, was constructed by Colonel Joseph Frantz Oscar Wergeland and his soldiers?
Did you know that Agnieszka Pilchowa, a noted clairvoyant in the Second Polish Republic, was also a herbalist who treated Prime Minister Józef Piłsudski and President Ignacy Mościcki?
Did you know that American showman P. T. Barnum proposed to buy Shakespeare's Birthplace and ship it brick-by-brick from England to the U.S.?
Did you know that Brown Mountain forest in East Gippsland, Victoria, is home to mainland Australia's largest marsupial carnivore, the Spotted Quoll?
Did you know that Council House in Perth, Western Australia, was built to coincide with that city's hosting of the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games?
Did you know that Franklin M. Fisher served as the chief economic witness for IBM in the antitrust case U.S. v. IBM, and for the United States Department of Justice in United States v. Microsoft?