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Did you know that the 2000 Black Coaches Association Classic was postponed by an electrical storm during which lightning struck ESPN broadcaster Lee Corso's rental car?
Did you know that the Australian Federal Division of Macarthur is considered to be a bellwether as it has been held by the ruling political party in every election since 1949?
Did you know that the Dhammapada describes an ascetic named Jambuka who had the practice of standing on one leg and eating his own excrement?
Did you know that the European and Japanese collaborative BepiColombo mission is planned to be the first extensive mission to Mercury since Mariner 10?
Did you know that the building that became Presidential Palace in Vilnius served as residence for the French Emperor Napoleon and Tsar Alexander I of Russia?
Did you know that the manufacturer of the Trojan car claimed that driving it was cheaper than walking?
Did you know that the non-profit Ahmedabad Textile Industry's Research Association is the largest association for textile research and allied industries in India?
Did you know that the original tunnel built to connect the Kalka-Shimla Railway at Barog, Himachal Pradesh was abandoned as the two constructed ends did not meet?
Did you know that Banksia epica is named after two epic journeys the first by Edward John Eyre in 1841 to cross the Nullarbor and the second by John Falconer in 1986 to collect specimens from the same area?
Did you know that Punjabi film-star Yograj Singh was a former Test cricketer and father of current Indian batsman Yuvraj Singh?
Did you know that biological therapy for inflammatory bowel disease has changed the manner in which doctors treat Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis?
Did you know that the National Protection War led to the death of Yuan Shikai, which led to the beginning of the Warlord Era in China?
Did you know that the P'urhépecha language isolate of Mexico is one of only two Mesoamerican languages not to have a phonemic glottal stop and that it has more than 160 affixes, 13 tenses and 6 modes?
Did you know that the little-known Dominickers of Holmes County, Florida, were said to be descendants of a pre-Civil War plantation owner's widow and one of her black slaves?
Did you know that "Ricky's Hand", the second single by British New Wave musician Fad Gadget, featured a Black & Decker electric drill as one of its 'instruments'?
Did you know that Homer Mensch, the double bassist who played the theme for Jaws, originally wanted to be a tennis player?
Did you know that the Arch of the Centuries of the University of Santo Tomas at Manila was disassembled from the University's original campus at Intramuros, carried piece-by-piece, and was re-erected at the current campus at Sampaloc?
Did you know that the Cellular Jail in the Andaman Islands in India had a forked structure and derived its name from the fact that it comprised only of isolated cells?
Did you know that the Lone Pine that marked the battlefield for which the Battle of Lone Pine is named, and whose pine cones have been planted at memorials for ANZAC soldiers killed during the whole of the Gallipoli Campaign, did not itself survive the battle?
Did you know that Hector Monro, Conservative and Unionist Party Member of Parliament for Dumfries for 33 years, was described by a Labour Party opponent as "the last of the decent Tories"?
Did you know that Mahinda, a 3rd century monk who brought Buddhism to Sri Lanka, was the son of the Mauryan Emperor Asoka?
Did you know that Rembrandt's portrait of Jacob de Gheyn III has been stolen four times to date, the most recorded for any painting in the world?
Did you know that bin bugs are being attached to wheelie bins in England to monitor the amount of domestic waste produced by each household?
Did you know that five months before his death, William Edington was offered the post of Archbishop of Canterbury, but turned it down?
Did you know that former major league baseball pitcher Terry Forster recorded a novelty song called "Fat Is In" after he was referred to as a "fat tub of goo" on Late Night With David Letterman?
Did you know that many people enjoy singing in the shower because the bathroom acts as an echo chamber to enrich the sound of the singer's voice?
Did you know that on Mother's Day, May 14, 2006, the Louisville Slugger Company produced more than 400 pink baseball bats for game use by more than 50 professional baseball players?
Did you know that public displeasure with "The Voice", Ireland's fourth Eurovision victory in five years, led to the introduction of televoting?
Did you know that the 13th century romance Perlesvaus features a strikingly different portrayal of the Arthurian legend than most texts, including a scene in which Sir Kay murders King Arthur and Guinevere's son?
Did you know that the 2006 Zakouma elephant slaughter is the latest of a four decade long series of massacres that has eliminated 97 percent of the Chadian elephant population of 300,000?
Did you know that the Planetary Fourier Spectrometer is used by the European Space Agency to determine the chemical composition of a planet's atmosphere?
Did you know that the Stoneman serial murders of thirteen homeless people in the summer of 1989 in Kolkata remain unsolved?
Did you know that the TP S.A. Tower in Warsaw features an external elevator shaft that is sloped 14° from the vertical?
Did you know that the building housing the Indian Institute of Advanced Study at Shimla, Himachal Pradesh was originally built as a home for Lord Dufferin, Viceroy of India?
Did you know that the father and two brothers of Pakistani cricketer Wasim Raja also played first-class cricket?
Did you know that the largest Lithuanian encyclopedia was published in the United States by the immigrant community when Lithuania was part of the Soviet Union?
Did you know that the world's first airline was DELAG, which operated with zeppelin airships?
Did you know that Barbadian cricketer Sir Clyde Walcott became the first non-English and non-white chairman of the International Cricket Council in 1993?
Did you know that Corporal Ernest Albert Corey is only soldier to have been awarded the Military Medal on four occasions?
Did you know that Ey Sham was the first entry in the Eurovision Song Contest from a country outside of geographical Europe?
Did you know that French neoclassical architect Jean Chalgrin died before the completion of his most recognizable work, the Arc de Triomphe?
Did you know that Muhammad had engaged as a diplomat for a time during his call to Islam?
Did you know that cyclist Gerald Ciolek became the youngest ever German National Cycling Champion, aged just 18 in 2005?
Did you know that in 1996 Andy Campbell, a ranger serving as Tunnel Mill Scout Reservation's caretaker, was shot to death by a wandering drunk who trespassed onto the property, the first such incident in the history of Scouting?
Did you know that the Council of Lithuania declared the independence of Lithuania by signing an Act of Independence on February 16, 1918?
Did you know that the Old Fashioned, possibly the first drink to be called a cocktail, was invented at the Pendennis Club in Louisville, Kentucky in the 1880s?
Did you know that the first television set made entirely in Poland, the Belweder, cost 7000 złoty at the time when the average monthly salary ranged from 1 to 2 thousand?
Did you know that the history of communication was dependent on the acquisition of the FOXP2 gene in humans, which facilitated the development of speech 200,000 years ago?
Did you know that the town of Rawalsar in Himachal Pradesh, India is sacred to three major religions -- Hinduism, Sikhism and Buddhism?
Did you know that Brian Boitano narrowly won the Battle of the Brians, a 1988 Winter Olympics figure skating rivalry between two elite skaters named Brian?
Did you know that Easter Posey was the first American woman to be killed in the line of duty in World War II?
Did you know that Pope Pius XII's cousin, Ernesto Pacelli, was a financial adviser to Pope Leo XIII, Pope Pius X, and Pope Benedict XV?
Did you know that Sir Macpherson Robertson was an Australian philanthropist, entrepreneur and founder of confectionery company MacRobertson's which invented the Freddo Frog chocolate bar?
Did you know that a protagonist of Albert Camus's play The Just Assassins was named after the Russian terrorist Ivan Kalyayev?
Did you know that developmental biologist PZ Myers, who writes about evolution, cephalopods, politics, and atheism, is the top-ranked science blogger according to the journal Nature?
Did you know that former Queensland House of Assembly member Tom Veivers was an Australian test cricketer?
Did you know that inventor Thomas Highs was never credited for his invention of both the spinning jenny and the water frame, mostly due to his lack of funding to patent the devices?
Did you know that the MacRobertson International Croquet Shield is the premier croquet teams event in the world and the 2006 series will be held in Australia in November?
Did you know that the Northeast Flag Replacement in 1928 ended the Chinese Warlord Era, in which Zhang Xueliang announced the replacement of all flags in Manchuria with the Nationalist Government's flag, thus nominally reuniting China?
Did you know that the small bowel bacterial overgrowth syndrome is a rare complication of bariatric surgery for obesity?
Did you know that the world's record auction price for a single piece of silver was achieved by a silver tureen made by the Parisian silversmith Thomas Germain in 1733, sold in November 1996 for US$ 10,287,500, triple the former record?
Did you know that "A-Ba-Ni-Bi", Israel's entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1978, was performed partly in the Hebrew equivalent of Pig Latin?
Did you know that Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was riding in a Gräf & Stift automobile at the time of his assasination?
Did you know that Bobby Pearce won the single sculls at the 1928 Summer Olympics despite stopping mid-race for a passing flock of ducks?
Did you know that Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh was also known as Jahangir Nagar?
Did you know that Estonian Margus Hunt won two gold medals at the 2006 World Junior Championships in Athletics, setting a world junior record in discus throw and a national junior record in shot put?
Did you know that Mauryan Emperor Ashoka had to stop the execution of his future spiritual adviser Moggaliputta-Tissa for touching his  right hand?
Did you know that Sanborn Park provided one of the first segments of the San Francisco Bay Area Ridge Trail, which is planned to encircle the Bay Area with a 500 mile long hiking trail?
Did you know that Semaphore, South Australia, the home of Australia's largest carousel, is also the birthplace of renowned aviator Sir Ross Smith?
Did you know that Virginia Congressman, John Floyd argued for settlement of the Oregon Territory twenty-eight years before it became an official United States territory?
Did you know that a table bridge is a moveable bridge that looks like an ordinary road when closed but appears monstrous when open, while a similarly appearing submersible bridge vanishes when open?
Did you know that aluminium alloys developed by Russian metallurgist Igor Gorynin are claimed to have the highest specific strength of all known weldable metallic materials?
Did you know that nearly 20,000 people visited a shrine in Bangalore in 2002 to see the Miracle Chapati, a flat unleaved piece of bread with the likeness of Jesus on it?
Did you know that the Allied Bombing of Bucharest in World War II damaged the University of Bucharest and uprooted trees at the Botanical Garden of Bucharest?
Did you know that the De La Salle University-Manila College of Engineering was established in 1947 with the aim of providing young men with knowledge of science and technology to help rehabilitate the Philippines, which had been devastated during World War II?
Did you know that the Old Ministry of Labour Building in Singapore housed the Chinese Protectorate before World War II, and has since been gazetted as a national monument?
Did you know that the Peace of Rueil, signed 11 March 1649 between the court party and the party of the Parlement of Paris, brought to an end the first phase of France's first revolution, the Fronde?
Did you know that when the Menier company built the first mass production plant for chocolate in 1830, it was the largest chocolate manufacturing company in the world?
Did you know that Chiques Creek in Pennsylvania, named for the Lenape word Chiquesalunga (meaning place of crayfish), has 13 variant names according to the USGS?
Did you know that Merv Wood, a single sculls gold medallist and the only person to twice be Australian flagbearer at the Summer Olympics, later became the Police Commissioner of New South Wales?
Did you know that Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy is the longest single-volume novel ever published in English?
Did you know that Willi Ninja's distinctive dance style was an inspiration for Madonna's 1990 song "Vogue"?
Did you know that anti-gay protests following the selection of the song Samo Ljubezen by drag-group Sestre in the 2002 Eurovision Song Contest led to criticism of Slovenia in the European Parliament?
Did you know that several years prior to the downfall and execution of the Romanov dynasty, the image of God's Mother disappeared from their patron Fyodorovskaya icon?
Did you know that the 1672 treatise Loimologia is a rare first-hand account of the Great Plague of London, written by one of the few physicians to remain in the city during the plague?
Did you know that the Israeli band Ping pong were disendorsed by the Israeli Broadcasting Authority as the representative in the 2000 Eurovision after waving the Flag of Syria in their song "Sameyakh"?
Did you know that the Svinsky Monastery later changed its name to Svensky, in order to avoid connotation to the word "swine"?
Did you know that the ruins of the Carmo Convent are some of the most impressive remains of the 1755 earthquake in Lisbon?
Did you know that 6Q0B44E, a recently discovered satellite of Earth, is thought to be a large piece of space debris?
Did you know that Iranshah Âtash Bahrâm in Udvada, a town in Gujarat, India, is the holiest fire temple for the Parsi community?
Did you know that a feature story is an article in a newspaper, a magazine, or a news website that is not meant to report breaking news, but rather to take an in-depth look at the background events, persons or circumstances behind a news story?
Did you know that arson was suspected when the last original boô, a building where a farmer rested when grazing cattle far from a village, burned down in the Netherlands?
Did you know that the fictional Document 12-571-3570 was a hoax that purported to describe sex experiments done in space?
Did you know that the stump speech of the blackface minstrel show was a precursor to modern stand-up comedy?
Did you know that American engineer Elmer William Engstrom was involved in the development of television by RCA in the 1930s?
Did you know that Ichikawa Danjūrō V, one of the most famous and successful Kabuki actors, was briefly forced out of the theater after being accused of misappropriating funds?
Did you know that Islam Khan was the founder of the modern city of Dhaka and the first Mughal general to subjugate Bengal?
Did you know that Rocco Petrone was the first non-German administrator of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center?
Did you know that in addition to their use on early sailing ships, early trains had "crow's nests" as well?
Did you know that line source is a mathematical construct used to analyze roadway air and noise pollution, but was not developed as a meaningful tool until 1970 when major U.S. laws spurred extensive environmental modelling?
Did you know that scholars of Japanese theatre have been able to identify the subjects of many yakusha-e (ukiyo-e actor prints, pictured) down to not only the kabuki actors, roles, and the play depicted, but even the theater and month in which it was performed?
Did you know that studies in phage ecology indicate that viruses may be the most abundant organisms on Earth?
Did you know that the Northern Barred Frog of Australia has a tadpole which reaches 12.5 centimetres (4.9 in) in length?
Did you know that the first British fighter pilot to die in World War II was killed in a friendly fire incident known as the Battle of Barking Creek?
Did you know that virtuoso double bassist and composer Frantisek Kotzwara asked a prostitute to cut off his testicles and died from erotic asphyxiation?
Did you know that Chillingham Cattle have lived as an isolated herd for 700 years, and are believed to be closely related to the aurochs, an extinct species domesticated in the Stone Age?
Did you know that Dmitry Chernov's discovery of the polymorphous transformations in steel has been thought to mark the transition of metallurgy from an art to a science?
Did you know that casually shaking either one of the minarets at the Sidi Bashir mosque in Ahmedabad causes the other minaret to vibrate a few seconds later?
Did you know that the Civilian War Memorial in Singapore was built in 1967 in memory of the civilians massacred during the Japanese Occupation of Singapore from 1942 to 1945?
Did you know that the English explorer and geologist Sir Vivian Fuchs led the first successful overland expedition across Antarctica in 1958—a journey of 2,158 miles (3,453 km)?
Did you know that the fictional goat Koziołek Matołek has been a popular Polish children's literature character since first appearing in 1933?
Did you know that Brian Cappelletto won the World Scrabble Championship in 2001 but has not played in the event since?
Did you know that Indian entrepreneur Jamsetji Tata conceptualized Tata Steel, Tata Power and the Indian Institute of Science, but that they were only established after his death in 1904?
Did you know that Polmos Łańcut, one of the oldest vodka distilleries in Poland, was established by Duchess Lubomirska and existed already in 1784?
Did you know that Wyndham Robertson, a Virginia politician who was a member of the Committee of Nine that helped Virginia be re-admitted to the Union after the American Civil War, was a descendant of Pocahontas?
Did you know that a Chicago urban legend states that 90,000 people died in Chicago of typhoid fever and cholera in 1885?
Did you know that hundreds of love padlocks have been attached to a fence in Pécs, Hungary by couples professing their commitment to one another?
Did you know that since the genome sequence of Saccharomyces cerevisiae was published in 1996, the complete genome sequences of over 50 other eukaryotes have been completed?
Did you know that the Castilian Civil War resulted in the removal of many Jewish people from high offices of state?
Did you know that the defunct Portsmouth Naval Prison, considered the "Alcatraz of the East", housed German U-boat crews after WWII?
Did you know that the librettoes for Tchaikovsky's operas Vakula the Smith and Cherevichki were adapted from Gogol's stories by the poet Yakov Polonsky?
Did you know that twirling is a key component of many artforms, hobbies, and sports where an object, such as a pen, baton or stick is spun or rotated to achieve the desired effect?
Did you know that "Stormtrooper in Drag", the debut single by Paul Gardiner, was co-composed by friend and former Tubeway Army bandmate Gary Numan, and marked the first time in four years of working together that they had collaborated on the writing of a published song?
Did you know that French Communist Party politician Jeannette Vermeersch was elected to to every sitting of the National Assembly from 1946 to 1958?
Did you know that Karan Bilimoria invented Cobra Beer and was the first Parsi in the House of Lords?
Did you know that Major-General F.F. Worthington, father of the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps, was buried with his wife in his own memorial park at Canadian Forces Base Borden, which also serves as home to the tank collection of the Base Borden Military Museum?
Did you know that Ultraviolet Germicidal Irradiation can be used instead of chlorine in wastewater treatment, eliminating toxic by-products of chlorine?
Did you know that at 7'3" (2.21 m), Swede Halbrook became the tallest person to ever play college basketball when he joined the Oregon State Beavers in 1954?
Did you know that in 1967 Mohawk Airlines Flight 40 crashed after a fire was sparked by a non-return valve being installed backwards?
Did you know that the Blood Parrot, a cross-bred fish, has neither a binomial nomenclature nor a distinctly known parentage?
Did you know that the Dundas Aqueduct was named after the British politician Charles Dundas, 1st Baron Amesbury?
Did you know that the fort at Arki, India was captured by Gurkhas in 1806 and used as their stronghold till 1815, when they ceded it during the Gurkha War?
Did you know that the original stained glass windows of the Saint George's Church in Singapore were packed away for safekeeping before the Japanese Occupation of Singapore but have never been found since?
Did you know that three years after being arrested for dealing in cocaine, former quarterback of the Oklahoma Sooners Charles Thompson managed to win a national championship with Central State University?
Did you know that Anne Gregg, best known as former presenter of the BBC's travel programme Holiday through the 1980s, was one of the first people from Northern Ireland to become a national British television personality?
Did you know that Charlie Williams, one of the first black football players in Britain after the Second World War and later Britain's first well-known black comedian, responded to heckling by saying: "If you don't shut up, I'll come and move in next door to you"?
Did you know that Coop NKL opened Norway's first self serve food store on October 1 1947?
Did you know that Ivan the Terrible commemorated his conquest of Kazan with the construction of St. Basil's Cathedral on Red Square?
Did you know that Royal Castle in Poznań was once the largest castle in the Polish Kingdom?
Did you know that according to legend, any immigrant to the city of Agroha, established by Emperor Agrasen in ancient India, would receive a hundred thousand bricks to build a home, and a hundred thousand rupees to start a business of his own?
Did you know that although the name of Pennsylvania's western Conewago Creek means at the rapids in the Lenape language, there are no rapids in the creek itself?
Did you know that archeological excavations proved that the Visoko valley was the center of the medieval Bosnian state and later kingdom?
Did you know that fried spiders are a popular food in the Cambodian village of Skuon?
Did you know that in order to get him to agree to write and perform the "Theme from Shaft", Isaac Hayes was promised an audition for the film's title role?
Did you know that nutcracker esophagus, a cause of difficult swallowing, takes its name from high amplitude contractions of the esophagus being likened to a mechanical nutcracker?
Did you know that the 2003 aggressive skating video game Rolling featured a roster of professional skaters including Fabiola da Silva and Brian Shima?
Did you know that the Bara Katra palace in Dhaka, now dilapidated and half-destroyed, was built originally to be the residence of Mughal prince Shah Shuja?
Did you know that the Cabinet des Médailles is the oldest museum of Paris, and houses the largest gold coin of Antiquity, a 20-stater of Eucratides I?
Did you know that the Obscure Berrypecker of New Guinea is a small forest bird known from two specimens and a handful of sightings?
Did you know that the Saqqara Bird, an Egyptian artifact dating to at least 200 B.C.E., has led some scholars to speculate whether the  Ptolemaic Egyptians possessed rudimentary airplane technology?
Did you know that the USS Robert H. McCard, a United States Navy destroyer, was named after U.S. Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant Robert H. McCard, a recipient of the Medal of Honor?
Did you know that the popular Lithuanian fairy tale hero Eglė the Queen of Serpents transformed herself and her children into trees as a punishment?
Did you know that while The Goons may have joked about exploding trousers, farmers in New Zealand in the 1930s actually experienced the phenomenon when herbicide that they were using caught fire?