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Did you know that Norwegian MP Tønnes Andenæs died in the Tretten train disaster?
Did you know that Portland, Oregon's Tanner Springs Park was described as "a sort of cross between an Italian piazza and a weedy urban wetland with lots of benches"?
Did you know that at least twenty horses were needed to transport a kartouwe?
Did you know that brothers Hayes Jenkins and David Jenkins won gold and bronze in the men's figure skating competition at the 1956 Winter Olympics?
Did you know that children's physician Alex Brinchmann chaired the Norwegian Authors' Union from 1941 to 1945, during the German occupation, but was eventually imprisoned from January 1945?
Did you know that mating in the marsh rice rat results in relatively few ejaculations, partly because of female resistance?
Did you know that no one is sure why, despite his victory at the Battle of Monte de las Cruces in 1810, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla retreated from Mexico City?
Did you know that one of the earliest mentions of driving on the left in the UK was in an 1827 Act of Parliament for the rebuilding of Shillingford Bridge?
Did you know that thalidomide causes birth defects by inactivating the protein cereblon?
Did you know that the Admiral Apartments, built in 1909, had "sporting girls" (prostitutes) operating out of it by 1913?
Did you know that the Anglo-Dutch multinational Unilever has patented several antifreeze proteins produced by a species of kidney lichen, due to their ability to modify ice formation in frozen foods?
Did you know that the Vizsoly Bible, the first complete Hungarian translation of the Bible, was published in 1590?
Did you know that the Wisconsin State Firefighters Memorial was completely funded by donations?
Did you know that the family of William Harris changed churches during the American Revolution because the church they had been attending continued to say prayers for the king?
Did you know that the original Atikamekw village of Obedjiwan and its archaeological sites in Quebec, Canada, were flooded during the construction of the Gouin Reservoir?
Did you know that the scope of the English case of Pepper v Hart, at first accepted by the judiciary, has "been reduced to such an extent that the ruling has almost become meaningless"?
Did you know that the trophic level of the world fisheries catch has steadily declined because many high trophic level species, such as tuna, have been overfished?
Did you know that when a teenager tore up a photograph of Canadian Prime Minister St. Laurent as the PM spoke, the ensuing fracas was seen as a turning point in the 1957 Canadian election?
Did you know that Abū Muḥammad al-Rāmahurmuzī was one of the first authors to write a comprehensive book of hadith terminology?
Did you know that Academic All-America teams, which are now presented by ESPN The Magazine, have been selected by College Sports Information Directors of America since 1952?
Did you know that Andrew Birch was sent by the king of Denmark, Christian VII, to examine books all over Europe?
Did you know that Chilean cartoonist and plastic artist Fernando Krahn had to leave his country in order to escape from the 1973 coup d'état?
Did you know that Edmund Chipp performed all six of Felix Mendelssohn's Organ Sonatas, op. 65 from memory in 1848?
Did you know that Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus did not want to receive Captain Nikolay Dyatlenko at the Battle of Stalingrad, yet ended up being received by him?
Did you know that Glen Moreno persuaded Man Group to sponsor the Man Booker Prize?
Did you know that Moroccan Elarbi Khattabi won five medals in team competitions at the World Cross Country Championships, including Morocco's first such medal, the silver in 1994?
Did you know that NGC 7027 is the most extensively studied planetary nebula?
Did you know that St. Remy's Catholic Church in Russia, Ohio, has been designated a historic site despite extensive modifications?
Did you know that Sylvester C. Simpson was the first Superintendent of Public Instruction in Oregon and worked to get a book authored in part by his brother selected as the state's reader?
Did you know that Tuanaitau F. Tuia, the longest serving legislator in the American Samoa Fono, served a combined 49 years in both the House of Representatives and the Senate?
Did you know that according to oral history, the Kingdom of Rwanda was founded in the 14th or 15th century on the shores of Lake Muhazi?
Did you know that although randomness (example pictured) had long been viewed as an obstacle, it is now used as a tool for designing better algorithms?
Did you know that at least twelve different nomenclatures have been proposed for features of the molar in muroid rodents?
Did you know that crossing sweepers helped nineteenth-century women avoid having their dresses soiled with horse dung?
Did you know that during the 1824–1842 term of Richard Charlton as the first British consul to the Kingdom of Hawaii, he was involved in a military occupation and controversial land claim?
Did you know that footballer Edward King was honored for heroism in the Philippines and tactical skill in France and later became Commandant of the Army Command and General Staff College?
Did you know that painter and sculptor Roberto Aizenberg has been called the "best-known" orthodox surrealist in Argentina?
Did you know that the Danish Tegnestuen Vandkunsten were the first team of architects to be awarded the Alvar Aalto Medal?
Did you know that the Kentucky Wildcats women's basketball program was abolished by the University Senate immediately following a perfect season?
Did you know that the Outer Trial Bank, a nature reserve in East Anglia, UK, was originally built as part of a failed government scheme to barrage the Wash and create a reservoir?
Did you know that the ancient Bible text, British Library Manuscript, Add. 14448, is lacunose?
Did you know that there may be as few as 250 of the Zapata Rail in its only habitat, the Zapata Swamp?
Did you know that Adrian Crowley's album Long Distance Swimmer was recorded in his sister's home in Foxrock, County Dublin, and features contributions from James Yorkston?
Did you know that Balsam Lake Mountain in the Catskills was the site of the first fire lookout tower in New York State?
Did you know that Carl Jeppesen organized the female match workers' strike in Kristiania in 1889?
Did you know that Duchess Sophie of Alençon died in a fire at a French charity bazaar, but some hotel visitors escaped through the kitchen window of the adjoining hotel with the help of the cook?
Did you know that English independent children's television producer Kindle Entertainment's first film, Dustbin Baby, won both an International Emmy and a Children's BAFTA?
Did you know that Ferdinand Poulton, a Jesuit missionary in the Province of Maryland, had his life and mysterious death fictionalized in the 1995 book Mary's Land?
Did you know that Francis James Garrick and James Francis Garrick, MPs in New Zealand and Queensland respectively, were brothers?
Did you know that Frank Dekum, a 19th-century banker in Portland, Oregon, and president of the German Songbird Society, imported thrushes, starlings, nightingales, and other German songbirds to Oregon?
Did you know that General Vernon Prichard, commander of the "Old Ironsides" armored division during the Italian Campaign in World War II, was Dwight Eisenhower's quarterback at West Point?
Did you know that Ireland Triple Crown-winning rugby player Paddy Reid was born on Saint Patrick's Day?
Did you know that Irving Pond designed three National Historic Landmarks, performed a backflip on his 80th birthday, and scored the first ever touchdown for the Michigan Wolverines?
Did you know that Nick Joaquin's May Day Eve is a short story about a  couple who got  married because of an incantation recited in front of a mirror?
Did you know that Pat Fanning, who died last weekend, was President of the Gaelic Athletic Association when the organisation repealed its ban on "foreign games"?
Did you know that Perchance to Dream by Robert B. Parker, the 1991 sequel to 1939 crime novel The Big Sleep, takes its title from Hamlet's soliloquy?
Did you know that Ryan Adams cited Irish singer-songwriter Adrian Crowley in a 2005 Rolling Stone interview when asked "Who's the best songwriter that no one's heard of"?
Did you know that a housebarn, a combined house and barn, is more costly to insure than a house because of a higher fire risk?
Did you know that despite being a magnitude 8.7 event, the 1730 Valparaiso earthquake led to only a few deaths, because people had left their homes after a strong foreshock?
Did you know that following his retirement from professional football, Bobby Bell managed car manufacturer Rolls-Royce's football team?
Did you know that in the Orkneyinga saga, after Olvir Rosta failed to gain a portion of the Earldom of Orkney, his grandmother was burned to death?
Did you know that the 1938 Art Deco styled and heritage listed Piccadilly Cinema is the only cinema still operating in the Perth CBD?
Did you know that the Communist-led Frente Popular polled just 1.82% votes in the 1963 Goa elections, largely due to the Catholic Church's backing of the rival United Goans Party?
Did you know that the Ghab valley swamp in northwest Syria was drained between 1953 and 1968, providing an extra 41,000 hectares (160 mi2) of irrigated lands?
Did you know that the National Leprechaun Museum, the first museum dedicated to leprechauns (example pictured), is designed in a way that makes humans seem very small?
Did you know that while training in 1944, the German U-804 shot down a Norwegian Mosquito?
Did you know that 6.9 Mw Chile earthquake of March 2010 took place shortly before president Sebastián Piñera was sworn in?
Did you know that Alan Cumming guest-starred in "Bang", an episode of the CBS drama series The Good Wife, as a political consultant commentators said mirrored Rahm Emanuel?
Did you know that Haqqi al-Azm, a former prime minister of Syria, was also the first governor of the State of Damascus under the French mandate?
Did you know that Harold Pogue, Perry Graves and Ralph Chapman became the University of Illinois' first first-team College Football All-Americans in 1914?
Did you know that Henry Blogg's first rescue as coxwain of the Cromer Lifeboat Louisa Heartwell was that of the crew of the barque Alf?
Did you know that Lena Horne won six awards for her 1981 one-woman show Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music?
Did you know that West Jewellers of Grafton Street, Dublin, had Queen Victoria's royal warrant to make her watches and she once bought two replicas of the Tara Brooch from the company?
Did you know that Whitney Avenue Historic District in New Haven, Connecticut, includes "locally outstanding" collections of Queen Anne, Shingle, Colonial Revival and Tudor Revival architecture?
Did you know that a species of specklebelly lichen is only found in old growth forests and is being threatened in Scandinavia by increased predation from snails?
Did you know that according to legend, New York Assemblywoman Ida Sammis' first act in the legislature was to polish the brass spittoon assigned to her, and to place it on her desk as a flower vase?
Did you know that actor Samuel Page of the AMC drama series Mad Men started a string of ongoing guest appearances in the ABC comedy-drama Desperate Housewives, starting with the episode "The Chase"?
Did you know that an Alaska Aces fan suffered a heart attack at Game 2 of the 2009–10 PBA Philippine Cup Finals?
Did you know that an excerpt of Nick Bertozzi's The Salon containing a nude depiction of Picasso caused a comic book store owner to be charged with distributing obscene material to a minor?
Did you know that despite his international success, Tunisian-Swiss 1500 metres runner Ali Hakimi only became Tunisian champion three times?
Did you know that drag racer Dale Armstrong is credited with being the first crew chief to test a Funny Car in a wind tunnel?
Did you know that film composer Nathan Scott, who arranged the music for Dragnet, scored almost all episodes of Lassie between 1963 and 1974?
Did you know that the Bayonne Statute, intended to be the basis for Joseph Bonaparte's rule of Spain, was never truly in effect because of a continual state of war?
Did you know that the Codex Arundel, which contains notes and sketches by Leonardo da Vinci, was reunited online with the similar Codex Leicester?
Did you know that the Parks and Recreation episode "Woman of the Year" mocked the meaninglessness of awards, which some critics saw as a jab about the show's failure to win major industry awards?
Did you know that the Temple of Bel, dedicated in 32 AD, formed the center of religious life in Palmyra, Syria and is considered its "best preserved" ruin?
Did you know that the personnel of the aircraft carrier HMAS Vengeance were complimented by Queen Elizabeth II on their forgery of her signature?
Did you know that the wreck of the British battlecruiser HMS Queen Mary has been designated as a protected place under the Protection of Military Remains Act 1986?
Did you know that veteran Irish broadcaster Gay Byrne recognised Brian Jennings' ability to pronounce words well?
Did you know that what is thought to have been the first ever properly floodlit association football match in the United Kingdom took place between two non-league teams, Ashton National and Hyde United, in December 1932?
Did you know that while veils in the 1400s were usually worn to preserve modesty, the garment worn by the sitter in Rogier van der Weyden's c. 1460 painting Portrait of a Woman is used to draw attention to her unusual beauty and sensuality?
Did you know that Australian cricketer Alyssa Healy was the first girl to play among boys in the private schools' cricket competition in New South Wales?
Did you know that Bristol Diamonds were popular souvenirs for visitors to the spa at Hotwells, Bristol, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?
Did you know that Harvard-educated William Little Lee became the first Chief Justice of the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1848 at the age of only 27?
Did you know that Indonesia's first flag flown was fashioned by its first first lady Fatmawati?
Did you know that James Long, an Anglican missionary in India, was jailed for publishing the play Nil Darpan?
Did you know that John Wright, one of the Gunpowder Plotters, was considered the finest swordsman in Britain?
Did you know that Laura Spurr enjoyed a long career in nursing before becoming chairwoman of the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi of Michigan?
Did you know that Major League Baseball player Billy Sunday and musician Wayne King lived in the Iowa Soldiers' Orphans' Home in Davenport, Iowa, even though neither were actual orphans?
Did you know that Saturday Night Live comedian Ana Gasteyer appeared in a serious role as a judge in "Fleas", an episode of the CBS drama, The Good Wife?
Did you know that Thomas Herbst, the current manager of Tennis Borussia Berlin, won the 1981 FIFA World Youth Championship before making his professional footballing debut for FC Bayern Munich?
Did you know that actress Edith Craig, dramatist Christabel Marshall and artist Clare Atwood lived in a ménage à trois from 1916 until Craig's death in 1947?
Did you know that during King Philip's War, in the battle known as Wheeler's Surprise, the Nipmuck chiefs Muttawmp and Matoonas besieged colonial soldiers led by Thomas Wheeler and Edward Hutchinson?
Did you know that in 1697, Reverend Ichabod Wiswall delivered the first known funeral sermon in British America?
Did you know that it has been suggested the extinct palm genus Palaeoraphe was restricted to the Greater Antilles?
Did you know that migralepsy is a rare condition where a migraine is followed by an epileptic seizure?
Did you know that singers Anne Sofie von Otter and Christian Gerhaher recorded music written in the concentration camp of Terezín by artists such as Ilse Weber, Hans Krása, Pavel Haas and Viktor Ullmann?
Did you know that the 7th century Maligawila Buddha statue, which was found broken into pieces in 1951, was repaired and re-erected in 1980?
Did you know that the Birmingham Charity Cup, a Victorian football trophy, featured engravings of a football match and of "the poor and sick succoured by the heavenly spirit"?
Did you know that the Convention 169 of the International Labour Organization in 1989 sought to end the assimilationist approach of the governments in dealing with indigenous peoples?
Did you know that the German pre-dreadnought battleship SMS Wörth represented the Kaiserliche Marine at Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee Fleet Review in 1897?
Did you know that the Honorary Fellows of Keble College, Oxford, have included Ronald Reagan and John Betjeman, even though neither had academic links to the college?
Did you know that the Palestinian village of Balata was a Frankish settlement during the Crusades?
Did you know that the bootlegged song "Revolution 1 (Take 20)" by the British rock band The Beatles acts as a missing link between the seemingly unrelated "Revolution 1" and the avant-garde "Revolution 9"?
Did you know that the name for the Texas stream Cibolo Creek comes from the Native American and Spanish word for Buffalo, who were hunted along its steep banks?
Did you know that the silver stavraton replaced the gold hyperpyron as the Byzantine Empire's chief coinage during the last century of its history?
Did you know that Al-Kahf Castle in al-Ansariyah mountains was the last Ismaili stronghold in Syria to surrender to the Mamluks?
Did you know that Aritsugu, a supplier of swords to the Imperial House of Japan during the 16th century, now produces cooking knives and utensils?
Did you know that Avondale Park, a Park Ship sunk on 7 May 1945, was one of two Allied ships destroyed by enemy action in the last hour of the Second World War in Europe?
Did you know that Bollywood actor Bobby Deol won the Filmfare Best Debut Award for his performance in Barsaat in 1995?
Did you know that Drosera falconeri is one of the few carnivorous plants that grow in alkaline soils?
Did you know that Fabian Joseph, a former team captain of the Canada men's national ice hockey team, won two winter Olympic silver medals for Canada in the early 1990s?
Did you know that Garry Richardson interviewed Bill Clinton during a rain delay at the Wimbledon Championships?
Did you know that German and Scottish mercenaries, sent by Sweden to retaliate the roasting of a Swedish commander by Russian forces, killed each other instead in the Siege of Wesenberg (1574)?
Did you know that Para Siempre, the 79th studio album by Vicente Fernández, reached number-one on the Mexican charts and won Best Ranchero Album at the 2008 Latin Grammy Awards ceremony?
Did you know that Republican National Committee official Rob Bickhart wrote a PowerPoint presentation for a meeting of Republican fundraisers which depicted Nancy Pelosi as Cruella de Vil?
Did you know that The God Stealer is the most anthologized short story written by Filipino National Artist F. Sionil José?
Did you know that The Kinks' "Sitting in the Midday Sun" is thought to be the first track recorded at their newly-built Konk Studios?
Did you know that a description of the Battle of Aspern-Essling written by Patrick Rambaud as The Battle was originally a project of Honoré de Balzac?
Did you know that a message of farewell to the spa town of Buxton scratched onto a window pane of the Old Hall Hotel was reputedly inscribed by Mary Queen of Scots?
Did you know that chimpanzees in the wild may self-medicate by swallowing the leaves of Aneilema aequinoctiale whole, in order to rid their intestines of parasitic nematodes?
Did you know that in 1779, New York State Senator John Williams was expelled from the Senate for defrauding fellow soldiers of income during the American Revolutionary War?
Did you know that minister Edward Woolsey Bacon served in the American Civil War and in 1865 led the black 29th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry into Richmond, Virginia?
Did you know that the American soul blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter Jimmy Burns, issued a number of singles in the 1960s, but waited over 25 years to release his debut album?
Did you know that the Dodé Valley, north of Lhasa, Tibet, contains both the Purbuchok Hermitage and Sera Utsé Hermitages?
Did you know that the aviso SMS Hela was the first German ship to be sunk by a British submarine in World War I?
Did you know that the physicist Stefan Meyer led the Institute for Radium Research in Vienna before and after the Nazi regime?
Did you know that the port city of Bergen was the site of the first German U-boat base in occupied Norway?
Did you know that the recently named trematopid temnospondyl Fedexia was named after the shipping service FedEx, which owned the land where the holotype specimen was found?
Did you know that the unnamed woman with seven sons portrayed in 2 Maccabees is known variously in other sources as Hannah, Miriam and Solomonia?
Did you know that 5th-century Indian mathematician Aryabhata created the first sine table?
Did you know that 92% of students at West London's Villiers High School do not speak English as their first language?
Did you know that Empire Cedric, a former Landing Ship, Tank, was the first Ro-Ro ferry?
Did you know that Hungry Bentley, an abandoned village in Derbyshire, England, was named for the poor quality of its land?
Did you know that Javier Arias Stella, Peruvian foreign minister during the Paquisha War, is also a notable pathologist?
Did you know that Johann Sebastian Bach wrote around 200 cantatas in German but only one, Gloria in excelsis Deo, BWV 191, in Latin?
Did you know that King Leopold signed a contract with Ladd & Co. for Belgian colonization of the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1843?
Did you know that Swiss athlete Georges de Regibus introduced association football to Bulgaria in 1894 as a sports teacher in Varna?
Did you know that William Hutcheon Hall of the Royal Navy earned the nickname "Nemesis Hall" for his services as commander of the Nemesis during the First Anglo-Chinese War?
Did you know that Yothu Yindi's song "Treaty" was the first song by a predominately-Aboriginal band to chart in Australia and the first in any Aboriginal Australian language to gain international recognition?
Did you know that a chance discovery in 1928 by a local farmer in Minet el-Beida led to the excavation of ancient Ugarit in Syria?
Did you know that beef is a common element in the works of the New Realist painter Carlos Alonso?
Did you know that black witches' butter is a wood-decay fungus that loosens the bark of its host by disintegrating the vascular cambium?
Did you know that during the Korean War, US Army Colonel Robert F. Martin commanded the 34th Infantry Regiment for only 14 hours before he was killed in the Battle of Chonan?
Did you know that in her novel Devil's Brood, author Sharon Kay Penman writes about Eleanor of Aquitaine who is imprisoned by her husband King Henry II of England?
Did you know that more than 98% of the human genome is noncoding DNA, sometimes referred to as "junk" DNA?
Did you know that the "Beethoven Burst" was a powerful gamma-ray burst which occurred on the birthday of Ludwig van Beethoven?
Did you know that the American electric blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter, Johnnie Bassett, played on The Miracles 1958 debut single, "Got a Job"?
Did you know that the Citadel of Damascus in Syria was built not on the top of a hill, but on flat ground, at the same level as the rest of Damascus city?
Did you know that the extinct spider Eoplectreurys is the oldest described genus of Haplogynae, predating spiders from Cretaceous amber in Jordan and Lebanon?
Did you know that the false scorpionfish mimics the true scorpionfish so well, it was originally described as a species of genus Scorpaena?
Did you know that the original recording of The Byrds' song "Eight Miles High" was not released until its appearance on the Never Before compilation album in 1987, some 22 years after it had been committed to tape?
Did you know that the thirty pieces of silver which Judas Iscariot received for betraying Jesus are echoed in Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment by the thirty roubles which Sonia earns for selling herself?
Did you know that there is an ancient Roman fort partly underneath the village green at Piercebridge in County Durham, England?