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Did you know that only twenty Marines have received the Marine Corps Brevet Medal?
Did you know that the Hogettes, a group of Washington Redskins fans who dress in drag and wear pig snout masks, have collected over US$100 million for charity since 1983?
Did you know that the Kaiparowits Plateau in Utah contains fine details of bones, teeth, eggshells, and even tracks of Late Cretaceous dinosaurs and other animals?
Did you know that the fire tower on Hunter Mountain in the Catskills is the highest in New York?
Did you know that the killing of a gay Marvel superhero by Wolverine led to the creation of the novel Hero, whose protagonist is a gay teenager?
Did you know that the town of Sant'Oreste, Italy grew up around the site at which Saint Orestes was said to have been buried alive during the reign of Nero?
Did you know that the Łódź insurrection was one of the largest disturbances of the Russian Revolution of 1905?
Did you know that Aramaean treaty-making in the first millenium BCE, as documented in the Sefire inscriptions, included loyalty oaths that invoked magical rites with curses to befall any violators?
Did you know that British MP Arthur Allen became Sir Stafford Cripps' assistant right after defeating Cripps' nephew in an election?
Did you know that George J. Adams led an ill-fated effort to establish a U.S. colony in Palestine?
Did you know that John Pegram was the first former U.S. Army officer to be captured while in Confederate service?
Did you know that Louis Pienaar was the last Administrator-General of South West Africa before Namibian independence was declared in 1990?
Did you know that Princess Vera Konstantinovna was the last surviving member of the Romanov family who could remember Imperial Russia?
Did you know that Rod Millen lost the 34 hour long Baja 1000 off-road race across the desert by 33 seconds, which is considered to be a photo finish?
Did you know that Russell Adam Burnham, the U.S. Army Soldier of the Year in 2003, became the U.S. Army Medical Command NCO of the Year in 2007?
Did you know that United States v. Binion upheld the conviction of a defendant who was found guilty of obstruction of justice for feigning madness in a competence-to-stand-trial evaluation?
Did you know that according to the U.S. landmark court case Rennie v. Klein, an involuntarily committed mental patient has a constitutional right to refuse psychiatric medication?
Did you know that bibliographers determined that Edward Allde had printed early editions of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet by comparing damaged type used in his other works?
Did you know that bromopyruvic acid, a simple inexpensive chemical, is being studied as a potential treatment for cancer?
Did you know that c.300, Egyptian alchemist Agathodaimon produced arsenic trioxide, an amphoteric oxide which he described as a 'fiery poison'?
Did you know that despite sweeping the elimination round of the 2007 UAAP men's basketball tournament, the University of the East was still beaten by De La Salle University-Manila 2-0 in the finals series?
Did you know that in 1956, The New York Times ran a front-page story featuring Winston H. Bostick's "plasma gun"?
Did you know that in 1966, Heinz Waaske created the smallest 135 film camera made to that date, the Rollei 35?
Did you know that in eighteen years, baritone William Walker performed over 360 times at New York's Metropolitan Opera?
Did you know that one of the first discoveries of atmospheric neutrinos was made at India's Kolar Gold Fields?
Did you know that technology from 18th-century France and China was used to improve the economy of Mysore kingdom?
Did you know that the Kerguelen Shag, a species of cormorant of the Kerguelen Islands, is the smallest species amongst Blue-Eyed Shags?
Did you know that the Mahāvyutpatti is the first substantial bilingual dictionary known?
Did you know that the Schuster Building in Louisville, Kentucky was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 as a "significant example" of Colonial Revival architecture?
Did you know that the Southern black bream, a species endemic to Australia valued for its flavorsome and moist flesh, has a high tolerance to salinity and is of possible use for inland aquaculture in saline dams?
Did you know that the city of Sapporo has the only beer museum in Japan?
Did you know that the medieval Noraduz cemetery contains the largest cluster of khachkars (stone crosses) in Armenia?
Did you know that 120,000 people participated in the 2005 Siyum HaShas, celebrating their completion of the eleventh 7½-year Daf Yomi study cycle, in which one folio of the 2,711-page Babylonian Talmud is studied each day?
Did you know that Bernt Carlsson, the last United Nations Commissioner for Namibia, died in the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing in 1988, while travelling to the signing ceremony of the Namibian independence agreement in New York?
Did you know that Dr. Edward Smith showed that muscles did not get their energy from proteins but from fats and carbohydrates?
Did you know that Gopal Chandra Bhattacharya has won the Ananda Purashkar and the Rabindra Puraskar, prestigious awards for Bengali literature, for his writing on insects and popular science?
Did you know that Horace Engdahl, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, said that The Four-Gated City is Nobel laureate Doris Lessing's most important work?
Did you know that Lady Isle, a small Scottish island in the Firth of Clyde, is Britain's first seabird reserve?
Did you know that Scotland Yard introduced the murder bag forensics kit after a police officer was reported to have scooped chunks of flesh from a murder victim into a bucket with his bare hands?
Did you know that Second World War bomber pilot "Micky" Martin broke the speed record flying from England to Cape Town?
Did you know that Shyampukur was the site of one of the two tents Jamshetji Framji Madan set up to screen films when he entered the ‘bioscope’ scene in Kolkata in 1902?
Did you know that Swami Vipulananda was the founding Professor of Tamil at both University of Ceylon and Annamalai University?
Did you know that a baby Indian Rhinoceros at the San Diego Wild Animal Park was named Ecko after fashion designer Marc Ecko donated funds to launch a campaign by the International Rhino Foundation?
Did you know that although Brian Elliott was drafted second-last in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft, he recently played a regular-season game for the Ottawa Senators?
Did you know that by the end of 19th century, there were an estimated two thousand English language schools in the Kingdom of Mysore?
Did you know that everything biologists know about the Small-eyed whiting (Sillago microps) came from studies conducted on two specimens found at a market in Taipei in 1985?
Did you know that rayon fibers used to make clothes come from trees pulped using the sulfite process?
Did you know that some experts believe a cylinder seal from the prehistoric San Andrés site is evidence for an Olmec writing system?
Did you know that students at the four ancient universities of Scotland are no longer afforded a traditional Meal Monday holiday, but manual staff at the University of St Andrews still are?
Did you know that the Douglas County Courthouse in Omaha, Nebraska was almost destroyed by mob violence only five years after it was built?
Did you know that the Folly Theatre, which specialised in burlesque and opéra bouffe, was originally the residence for Catholic priests of the Oratory of St Philip Neri in London?
Did you know that the Portuguese football champion has been one of S.L. Benfica, F.C. Porto or Sporting Clube de Portugal on 78 out of 86 occasions?
Did you know that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1963 that a criminal defendant has a constitutional right to "effective" legal counsel, but "effective" was not defined until Wiggins v. Smith in 2003?
Did you know that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a mental illness is a  mitigating factor  in death penalty cases, but the Supreme Court of California in one case ruled that mental illness is an aggravating factor?
Did you know that the experiment which outlined the principles  behind backscattering spectroscopy was described by Ernest Rutherford as "the most incredible event that has ever happened to me in my life"?
Did you know that the figures in Johannes Vermeer's The Wine Glass are taken directly from Pieter de Hooch's A Dutch Courtyard?
Did you know that the murder of Michael Francke while he was at work became the basis of the movie Without Evidence?
Did you know that Edgar Allan Poe's 1841 short story Never Bet the Devil Your Head spoofs moral tales and Transcendentalism?
Did you know that Eliza Jumel married former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr in 1833, only to divorce him three years later?
Did you know that Japanese matinée idol Akira Kobayashi wore a gash across his face and large, Brezhnevian eyebrows for his role in the Seijun Suzuki yakuza film Kanto Wanderer?
Did you know that John Grant's moated manor near Stratford-on-Avon was chosen for storing weapons for the rebellion that was to follow the Gunpowder plot?
Did you know that Milly Witkop and her common-law husband Rudolf Rocker were denied admission to the United States in 1898, because they refused to get legally married?
Did you know that Negombo Tamil identity survives primarily in just one village called Udappu in Sri Lanka?
Did you know that Wiley W. Hilburn was in 1962 among the youngest editorial writers for major daily newspapers in the U.S.?
Did you know that former Portland mayor Frank Ivancie was defeated in his run for re-election by a local tavern owner with no prior political experience?
Did you know that in the early 20th century, when education was segregated in the United States, the Calhoun Colored School focused on vocational education for African Americans instead of classical education to protect the school from being closed down?
Did you know that on September 29, 1968 a global horizontal sounding technique superpressure balloon became the first balloon to fly for a full year?
Did you know that the Red-chested Goshawk (Accipiter toussenelii), a hawk of West Africa, was named after French journalist Alphonse Toussenel?
Did you know that the former Iraqi Air Force commander, politician and ambassador Hardan al-Tikriti was assassinated on Saddam Hussein's orders in 1971?
Did you know that the wine-producing region of Blackwood Valley is named after the longest continually flowing river in Western Australia?
Did you know that A Gift to Young Housewives, a Russian cookbook condemned under communism, contained nearly 4,000 recipes in some editions?
Did you know that Albrecht Dürer's Joachim and Anne Meeting at the Golden Gate is one of 16 woodcuts completed between 1501 and 1511, which display the Virgin as an intermediary between the divine and the earth, yet with a range of human frailties?
Did you know that Elizabeth F. Ellet was the first writer to record the lives of women who contributed to and survived the American Revolutionary War?
Did you know that Kenneth Lockwood, one of the first six British prisoners at Colditz in 1940, remained a POW until the castle was liberated in April 1945?
Did you know that Mormon settlers on the 1879 San Juan Expedition to establish a colony in what is now southeastern Utah spent several months widening a "Hole-in-the-Rock" for the passage of wagons?
Did you know that Nigerian businessman Alhassan Dantata was the wealthiest person in West Africa at the time of his death in 1955?
Did you know that Pat "Gravy" Patterson, the head coach of the Louisiana Tech University from 1968 to 1990, was the winningest baseball coach in the state's history?
Did you know that St Lawrence's Church, a listed building in Stoak, Cheshire, England, has a Tudor hammerbeam roof, a Jacobean altar, a Georgian pulpit, an Elizabethan chalice and chairs from the time of Charles II?
Did you know that Thomas de Dundee, later Bishop of Ross, was one of three men from the small Scottish burgh of Dundee studying Roman law at the University of Bologna at the same time in the later 13th century?
Did you know that a galdr was an incantation that Viking men chanted in falsetto?
Did you know that archaeological excavations near the Andries DuBois House in Wallkill, New York, found evidence that it was built half a century later than previously believed?
Did you know that at Bougon, a prehistoric burial mound in France, archeologists found the skull of a man who had undergone three trepanations during his lifetime?
Did you know that former Belfast City Councillor Pat McGeown was a Provisional IRA volunteer referred to as the "11th hunger striker" in the 1981 Irish hunger strike?
Did you know that four member states of the European Union have de jure opt-outs and do not participate fully in all common policies?
Did you know that in 1959, Barksdale Hamlett, the U.S. commandant in Berlin, threatened to forcefully prevent the East German government from flying its new flag over elevated railway stations in West Berlin?
Did you know that in Bigby v. Dretke, the defendant put a gun to the judge's head, but the judge testified the assault did not bias him, and refused to recuse himself?
Did you know that the New Caledonia cricket team have lost every international they have ever played, including the only known loss by more than 500 runs?
Did you know that the Sauk and the British Army defeated the U.S. Army at Campbell's Island during the War of 1812?
Did you know that the Tower of the Sun, created by Japanese artist Tarō Okamoto for the 1970 Expo, has three faces, representing the past, the present and the future?
Did you know that the Yorkshire Museum paid £2.5 million pounds for an item found in Yorkshire using a metal detector?
Did you know that the automatic tire chain system OnSpot was created in 1977 by a Swedish inventor who mounted it onto a local milk delivery truck?
Did you know that the development of the Lockheed XF-104, a single-engine, high-performance, supersonic interceptor aircraft prototype, earned aircraft engineer Kelly Johnson his first Collier Trophy in 1958?
Did you know that Admiral Clarence S. Williams, commander in chief of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet, directed a 1926 military intervention to protect foreign nationals in Shanghai at the start of the Chinese Civil War?
Did you know that English civil engineer James Trubshaw's straightening method used on Wybunbury's St Chad's tower in 1832 was later used to stabilise the Leaning Tower of Pisa?
Did you know that Leonid Hurwicz, winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Economics at the age of ninety, is the oldest recipient of any Nobel Prize in any category?
Did you know that Los Angeles considered changing the name of the geographic region known as San Fernando Valley in 2002 to San Angeles, the same name used for the fictional city in the 1993 movie Demolition Man?
Did you know that North American helitack crews are airlifted into remote areas to "attack" wildland fires before they get out of control?
Did you know that Polish painter and politician Henryk Józewski protected Ukrainian leader Symon Petliura from extradition to Soviet Union by hiding him in his flat?
Did you know that United States Presidential candidate Ron Paul has won a total of fifteen Republican straw polls, placing him second among all candidates yet remains near the bottom of statewide polls?
Did you know that a translocation mutation in chromosome 11 may result in mantle cell lymphoma?
Did you know that early Indian Christians were Nestorians until the arrival of Portuguese in the 16th century introducing Roman Catholicism to the country?
Did you know that from 1747 to 1831, present-day Iraq was ruled by Georgian Mamluks?
Did you know that in 2004, a California Senate committee passed a youth suffrage constitutional amendment called Training Wheels for Citizenship to give 14-year-olds one-quarter of a vote and 16-year-olds one-half of a vote in state elections?
Did you know that in an upcoming presentation ceremony at the White House, the late Navy SEAL Michael P. Murphy will become the first person awarded the Medal of Honor for actions in the current War in Afghanistan?
Did you know that in the USSR, people such as Nikolai Yezhov and Leon Trotsky were removed from photos to erase them from Soviet history?
Did you know that lignosulfonates, wood pulp byproducts, are used to make concrete, tanned leather, and even artificial vanillin?
Did you know that low energy ion scattering causes various phenomena at a material's surface, that are used to explore its structure and composition?
Did you know that missionary Don Richardson discovered that aborigines of Western New Guinea have a concept called the Peace Child which is very similar to the incarnation of Jesus?
Did you know that sky anchors combine a gas balloon for buoyancy and a superpressure balloon for ballast?
Did you know that the Charter Arms Bulldog revolver became notorious after it was revealed to be serial killer David Berkowitz's weapon of choice?
Did you know that the Coat of arms of Asturias bears the Victory Cross, a Christian cross carried by King Pelagius of Asturias of Spain at the Battle of Covadonga?
Did you know that the Cogan House Covered Bridge in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, USA was built by a millwright who preassembled the frame in a field beside the sawmill to make sure it all fit?
Did you know that the Sapporo Factory in Japan, a building complex with a shopping mall, offices, a multiplex movie theatre and a Meissen porcelain museum, was originally constructed as a brewery?
Did you know that the Solomon Islander Peter Ambuofa, who had converted to Christianity while working on a sugar plantation in Queensland, was left to starve by his own relatives when he returned home?
Did you know that the Solomon Islands Christian Association came out of a meeting of church representatives that included the future first Prime Minister and first Governor-General?
Did you know that the accuracy of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth was challenged  in the English High Court of Justice case Dimmock v Secretary of State for Education and Skills?
Did you know that the extinct crocodile-like Prionosuchus is the largest amphibian known to have existed?
Did you know that the freshwater weed Azolla  may have grown in the Arctic Ocean with enough vigour to plunge the world into an ice age?
Did you know that the mother of PIRA prisoner Jackie McMullan chained herself to railings outside 10 Downing Street in London?
Did you know that the rules for a scrum in rugby union were changed in 2007 to try to reduce the number of serious neck injuries to players?
Did you know that the stock for the captive breeding program of the Galapagos Land Iguana descended from iguanas which William Randolph Hearst translocated from Baltra Island to North Seymour Island in the 1930s?
Did you know that there is space for an additional 15,000 names to be added to the British Armed Forces Memorial?
Did you know that though Alfred Balfour was a British MP for 14 years, he made only a single speech in the House of Commons?
Did you know that when British diplomat Sir Alan Campbell became ambassador to Ethiopia, he noticed people kneeling down in reverence as his car drove to the palace of Emperor Haile Selassie?
Did you know that Blanca Errázuriz was acquitted of the murder of her ex-husband John de Saulles, due to the testimony of Rudolf Valentino?
Did you know that Craigiehall, a country house designed for the Earl of Annandale by Sir William Bruce in 1699, is now the headquarters of the British Army in Scotland?
Did you know that Madame Tussauds Hong Kong is the oldest permanent wax museum in Asia?
Did you know that Martin Meehan was the first person to be convicted of membership of the Provisional IRA and the last prisoner released following the abolition of internment in Northern Ireland?
Did you know that NBA point guard John Bagley was the first Boston College Eagle to earn Big East Men's Basketball Player of the Year honors?
Did you know that Sakina Akhundzadeh is considered the first female playwright and dramatist in Azerbaijani literature?
Did you know that Summit Avenue in Saint Paul, Minnesota, a well preserved Victorian residential boulevard, is home to three National Historic Landmarks and five other structures on the National Register of Historic Places?
Did you know that William Wadsworth Hodkinson merged 11 film rental bureaus in 1914 to form Paramount Pictures, the first U.S.-wide distributor of feature films?
Did you know that before the launch of a satellite, a group of scientists from ISRO's Master Control Facility at Hassan offer prayers to a miniature model of the satellite and donate it to a temple in Dharmasthala?
Did you know that in 2004, running back Mike Hart broke Ricky Powers' Michigan Wolverines freshman rushing record and matched Jon Vaughn, the only other Michigan back with consecutive 200-yard games?
Did you know that over 60.1% of Colombian families are below the poverty threshold?
Did you know that passengers for Lympstone Commando railway station have to pass an armed guard as the only access is through the adjacent Royal Marine Commando Training Centre?
Did you know that rye and oats used to be crop-mimicking weeds before they became domesticated?
Did you know that sandstone layers now exposed in the Canyons of the Escalante in Utah were deposited during the Mesozoic period, when the area was covered with sand dunes about 180 to 225 million years ago?
Did you know that the British General John Reid, second in command in Henry Bouquet's expedition against the western and Ohio Indians, was also a proficient flute-player and a musical composer?
Did you know that the Christian mission founded by Florence Young on her brothers’ sugar plantation in Queensland led her to make annual trips to the Solomon Islands for twenty years?
Did you know that the Greek submarine Delfin was the second submarine to enter service in the Greek navy?
Did you know that the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall houses the remains of victims of the Nanking Massacre in a building shaped like a coffin?
Did you know that the entire population of Exuma Island Iguanas on Leaf Cay in the Bahamas was translocated to Pasture Cay in 2002 in an effort to protect the species?
Did you know that the largest known metal vessel from antiquity is an elaborately decorated bronze volute krater discovered at the Vix Grave in Burgundy, France in 1953?
Did you know that the majority of St. Thomas' ciguatera cases are linked to the same species of fish, the bar jack, or Caranx ruber?
Did you know that when Dorothy Andrews Elston married Walter Kabis, she became the first, and so far the only, Treasurer of the United States to have her name changed while in office?
Did you know that Arumuga Navalar, a Hindu revivalist, also helped translate the Bible into Tamil?
Did you know that British Conservative Member of Parliament Cyril Banks was friendly with Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, and left his party over the Suez Crisis?
Did you know that Catherine Pegge from Derbyshire had a son who was named Charles like his heirless and exiled father, Charles II of England?
Did you know that Darren Heitner was a champion Nintendo video game player aged six and then defeated over 400,000 other students at age ten in a US educational poster contest run by the National Football League?
Did you know that Dr. Chris Hatcher convinced the jury in a capital punishment case without having interviewed the defendant?
Did you know that Dudley Ryder, a managing director of Coutts private bank for 40 years, was also a director of English Big Four bank NatWest for 19 years until he succeeded his father as 7th Earl of Harrowby?
Did you know that Edmund Blacket became known as "the Christopher Wren of Sydney" for building four cathedrals, 80 churches and a university?
Did you know that Gatot Soebroto, who would become a leader in the Indonesian independence movement, was expelled from elementary school for fighting?
Did you know that Joe Shishido transitioned from a moderately successful melodrama actor into a popular villain and then action star after he underwent plastic surgery to severely enlarge his cheeks?