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Did you know that a higher H-point in an automobile design would lead to more legroom in the vehicle?
Did you know that footballer Graham Lewis was nearly prevented from making his début for Belper Town F.C. when the referee and assistant referee failed to spot his name on the team sheet?
Did you know that in Medellín v. Texas, the U.S. Supreme Court held that, absent an act of Congress or Constitutional authority, the U.S. President lacks the power to enforce decisions of the International Court of Justice?
Did you know that jazz drummer Butch Ballard was hired by Duke Ellington as a backup drummer due to the excessive drinking of his regular drummer Sonny Greer?
Did you know that numerous wells and springs were dedicated to Saint Quirinus of Neuss, who was invoked against the bubonic plague, smallpox, gout, and a siege of the city of Neuss during the Burgundian Wars?
Did you know that the 1947 song "Pico and Sepulveda" about an intersection on LA's Pico Boulevard was frequently on Dr. Demento's radio show?
Did you know that the Haitian military leader and former slave Lamour Desrances allied with the enemies of Haitian Revolutionary hero Toussaint Louverture in the War of the Knives?
Did you know that the Roman fort Longovicium has one of the best preserved ancient aqueducts in Britain?
Did you know that the practices of the Followers of Christ church in Oregon, United States, which include faith healing and forbid medical treatment, prompted a 1999 state law making parents liable if their children are harmed by a lack of treatment?
Did you know that the species name of South Africa's Eastern Cape Blue Cycad, horridus, is Latin for 'sticking out' or 'prickly', after the plant's stiff, spiny leaflets?
Did you know that the steamboat Flyer, which by 1930 had covered more miles than any other dedicated inland vessel, had an imperfectly sealed hull, causing it to list to port throughout its working life?
Did you know that when Demi Moore appeared nude on the cover of Vanity Fair in the body painting/photograph Demi's Birthday Suit, it commemorated More Demi Moore's one-year anniversary?
Did you know that American entrepreneur Timothy Dexter defied the popular idiom and actually made a profit when he sold coal to Newcastle?
Did you know that Ben Affleck died while shoveling snow outside of his house, leaving behind an unexpectedly small estate speculated to be worth as little as US$20,000?
Did you know that John F. Kennedy was shot dead in an ambush by government agents who had foreknowledge of his whereabouts?
Did you know that Kentucky Governor Joseph Desha pardoned his son Isaac after he had twice been convicted of murder?
Did you know that Weber kettle grills were actually made out of buoys cut in half?
Did you know that in a few villages and towns of southern France and Spain it is illegal to die, and that there are attempts to have the same law in a town in Brazil?
Did you know that men are able to be insured against alien impregnation?
Did you know that physicist Siegfried Flügge collaborated with Fritz Houtermans, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, and others in an effort to create an atomic weapon for Nazi Germany?
Did you know that six latrines at Black Moshannon State Park in Pennsylvania are listed on the National Register of Historic Places?
Did you know that taxpayers of Palenville, New York argued so bitterly over the costs of Rowena Memorial School that some called for it to be demolished?
Did you know that the 24 Hours of LeMons includes such penalties as tarring and feathering a racer's car and crushing a car via audience vote (crushing of a car pictured)?
Did you know that the Berlin Rules adopted in 2004 is the authoritative summary of all customary international law applicable to waters and the relevant international standards for environmental and humanitarian laws?
Did you know that the Carrikeri Harlequin Frog, a critically endangered toad endemic to northern Colombia, was recently rediscovered after an absence of 14 years?
Did you know that the Great Platte River Road through the Nebraska Territory is considered today to be an early superhighway in the American Old West?
Did you know that Don Nicholson was so dominant that critics predicted the demise of the new Funny Car "craze"?
Did you know that Giampietro Campana financed his collection of Roman sculpture, Greek vases and Etruscan and Greek gold jewelry in part by embezzling money from the Papal pawnbroker?
Did you know that Gustav Wilhelm Wolff was nicknamed Teutonic in the British House of Commons after a steamship built by his company Harland & Wolff?
Did you know that James Garner sent two of his associates  into a room filled with toxic chlorine gas?
Did you know that Jan Wils won a gold medal in architectural design in art competitions at the 1928 Summer Olympics for his design of the Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam?
Did you know that John Latenser, Sr., an early architect in Omaha, Nebraska, designed more than 12 buildings on the National Register of Historic Places?
Did you know that Michigan State University, which gave technical assistance to South Vietnam from 1955 to 1962, provided cover for the CIA?
Did you know that St Stephen's Church in Macclesfield Forest, Cheshire still practises a rush-bearing ceremony, largely abandoned in the 17th century?
Did you know that Stone Bridge in Saint Petersburg, Russia was so steep, that in the 19th century bus passengers had to disembark in order for the bus to go over it?
Did you know that Viet Nam Vong Quoc Su, a history text by Vietnamese nationalist Phan Boi Chau, changed the style of prose used in Vietnamese writing?
Did you know that Wiener sausages are named after the mathematician Norbert Wiener?
Did you know that although presidents of Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan have been requested to give technical advice about software patches in open-source computer operating systems, only the Ukrainian president did so?
Did you know that at less than 11 feet (3.4 m) wide, the Skinny House is the narrowest house in Boston, Massachusetts?
Did you know that attractions at Indianapolis, Indiana's White City Amusement Park included baby incubators and a Mount Vesuvius reenactment?
Did you know that in 1976, people reported feeling a floating sensation as they jumped in the air, caused by a Jovian–Plutonian gravitational effect (Jupiter pictured)?
Did you know that more than a dozen artists have recorded live albums in the back room of McCabe's Guitar Shop, including Tom Waits, Beck, and R.E.M.?
Did you know that prior to screening The Round-Up in Cannes, in order to appease the Hungarian government, director Miklós Jancsó had to declare the film was not an allegory of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956?
Did you know that since as early as the 10th century, Nabulsi soap, a traditional olive oil-based soap, has been exported across the Arab world and even to Europe?
Did you know that the 31-mile (50 km) West Rim Trail along the Grand Canyon was selected by Outside Magazine as the best hike in Pennsylvania?
Did you know that the Hatfield Government Center light rail station in Hillsboro, Oregon, was the busiest on the Westside MAX extension within a year of opening?
Did you know that the Michigan Wolverines' practice of parading their live mascot Biff before matches was stopped as the animal grew larger and more ferocious?
Did you know that the New Guinean mouse Pseudohydromys germani is one of two rodent species to have only two molars in each jaw?
Did you know that the Tegg's Nose Country Park  in Cheshire has a collection of historical quarrying equipment dating back to the 16th century?
Did you know that the Veterans for Peace erect a memorial called Arlington West every Sunday at Santa Monica Beach consisting of a cross in the sand for each U.S. military person who has died in the Iraq War?
Did you know that the fact that no one has been arrested for the murder of Indian ex-parliamentarian Ehsan Jafri is seen as evidence of government complicity?
Did you know that the fire and explosion of SS Fort La Monte wrecked the nearby Royal Navy destroyer HMS Arrow?
Did you know that the globe in the initial release of the NT$1,000 fifth series of the New Taiwan Dollar banknote was mirror-reversed?
Did you know that the winner of the Ernie Awards is the person who gets the loudest boos from the audience?
Did you know that American showman Michael B. Leavitt staged the anti-Mormon play The Danites in the Mormon capital, Salt Lake City, Utah, as a publicity stunt?
Did you know that Charles D. Poston petitioned the Shah of Persia for funds to build a Parsi fire temple near Florence, Arizona?
Did you know that Emperor Xuanzong of Tang had the eunuch Gao Lishi strangle Consort Yang Yuhuan to prevent a rebellion by the imperial guards angry at her?
Did you know that Groucho Marx joined Hillcrest Country Club even though it was willing to have him as a member?
Did you know that Gustav Christian Schwabe decided to finance Thomas Henry Ismay's venture, the White Star Line, during a game of billiards?
Did you know that Judge James Yates resigned from the New York State Supreme Court to be General counsel to the Governor of New York David Paterson?
Did you know that Lytocaryum weddellianum, an endangered species of palm trees endemic to Brazil, may be saved from extinction as it has become a common potted plant in Europe?
Did you know that Montreal Canadiens forward Maurice "Rocket" Richard was named the three best players of a National Hockey League playoff match, earning himself all three stars?
Did you know that Pasquale Condello of the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta, recently captured by Italian police in February 2008, was previously sentenced in absentia to four life prison terms plus another 22 years in jail?
Did you know that Retired Rear Admiral Roberta L. Hazard, once the highest-ranking woman in the U.S. military, was a  history teacher?
Did you know that Scottish actor Russell Hunter was so concerned about being identified with "Lonely", the anxious, smelly sidekick he played in the 1960s spy series Callan, that he took pains to smell nice?
Did you know that Woodside, Utah is a ghost town with a roadside cold water geyser?
Did you know that at the Council of Acre in 1148, the decision was made to attack Damascus, leading to the failure of the Second Crusade?
Did you know that at the height of Wally Phillips' radio career, roughly half the entire Chicago listening audience, or about 1.5 million listeners, tuned into his show?
Did you know that during a Viking funeral, human sacrifice was performed with sexual rites?
Did you know that every receipt issued by Taiwanese businesses, known as the Uniform Invoice, is also a lottery ticket?
Did you know that footballer Henry Martin scored on his début against Liverpool and again the next day against their neighbours Everton?
Did you know that in the 2007 documentary film Autism: The Musical, five autistic children in Los Angeles develop and star in an original stage production?
Did you know that of the twenty-five clipper ships owned by the Loch Line, which operated between the United Kingdom and Australia, seventeen were lost at sea?
Did you know that part of the northern Oklahoma State Highway 92 is named after country singer Garth Brooks?
Did you know that the Colonel Wright was the first steamboat to run on the Snake River?
Did you know that the Palazzo Filangeri-Cutò, featured in Giuseppe di Lampedusa's novel The Leopard and the Luchino Visconti film of the same name, was almost totally destroyed in a 1968 earthquake?
Did you know that the ancient Egyptians set up hundreds of ka statues in Abydos so the dead could participate in religious festivals?
Did you know that the decision of a Pennsylvania provincial court in 1764, The King v. Haas, is one of the first attempts to apply the writ of habeas corpus in the Thirteen Colonies?
Did you know that the former Australian Supreme Court justice and barrister, Sir John Vincent Barry, qualified as a lawyer after graduating from an articled clerk course?
Did you know that the utility of heavy water as a moderator in a nuclear reactor was demonstrated by Klara Döpel and her husband Robert in the 1940s?
Did you know that the yellow livery of the German postal service was decreed by the Allied Control Council in 1946?
Did you know that troco, also called "trucks" or "lawn billiards", is a traditional English lawn game played with wooden balls and long-handled cues at the ends of which are spoon-like ovals of iron?
Did you know that when Masashi Kishimoto was creating the characters of the Naruto manga, he used other shōnen manga as references, including Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball?
Did you know that "Maphriyono" (Maphrian) meaning, "to make fruitful", or "one who gives fecundity" is another term for Catholicos of India?
Did you know that Brazilian singer Maria Bethânia released her first recording the same year as her brother Caetano Veloso, even though he was four years older?
Did you know that Chai Trong-rong, a Taiwanese legislator, was unable to return to Taiwan while studying abroad because he was placed on the Kuomintang's black list?
Did you know that Dodge Street in Omaha, Nebraska is often erroneously said to be a namesake of Union Pacific Railroad chief engineer Grenville Dodge, when it was actually named for Iowa Senator Augustus C. Dodge?
Did you know that Flora Sandes, who served with the Serbian Army, was the only British woman to officially enrol as a soldier in World War I?
Did you know that Governor of New York David Paterson chose Jon Cohen as his Chief Advisor, although Cohen briefly ran against him for Lieutenant Governor?
Did you know that Herm Doscher and his son Jack were the first pair of father and son to have both played Major League Baseball?
Did you know that Mary Meader, best known for taking more than 1,000 aerial pictures, was also a major philanthropist, once giving US$4 million to Western Michigan University?
Did you know that Myrialepis paradoxa, a species of palm trees native to Southeast Asia, is used to make thatched baskets?
Did you know that Portland, Oregon–based evangelical minister Luis Palau has collaborated with government leaders, and 500 Christian pastors, to rally volunteers to address homelessness?
Did you know that Saint Paul, Minnesota was once known as "Pig's Eye"?
Did you know that Sara Larraín, who finished in fifth place in the 1999 Chilean presidential election, was a founder and the first director of Greenpeace in Chile?
Did you know that a biography of Saladin, the 12th-century sultan of Egypt and Syria, written by his friend and confidant Baha ad-Din ibn Shaddad, is still in print after seven centuries?
Did you know that at a cost of US$7.9 billion, Meghna Bridge in Bangladesh is the single largest project with Japanese assistance in the world?
Did you know that during the Third American Karakoram Expedition's attempt to climb K2, Pete Schoening saved the lives of six falling climbers?
Did you know that in a Maranao myth, the Agus River was constructed to prevent Lake Lanao from becoming an ocean?
Did you know that the Australian states of New South Wales and Queensland both set rainfall records in 1950?
Did you know that the Bahá'í Faith is one of only a few non-Christian religions recognised by the government of Cameroon?
Did you know that the Fiji Woodswallow is highly aggressive to predators and will harass the much larger Fiji Goshawk and Peregrine Falcon?
Did you know that the Malay kite, a model of kite used for hundreds of years in the Far East and introduced to the West in 1894, provided the inspiration for the now widespread and popular "Eddy" kite design?
Did you know that the earliest known portrait of Frédéric Chopin, painted by Ambroży Mieroszewski in 1829 when the composer was nineteen, was lost in the opening days of World War II?
Did you know that the parents of Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini gave him the middle name "Amilcare" in honour of the revolutionary anarchist Amilcare Cipriani?
Did you know that 50 years after winning A£100 in a fridge-decorating competition, Australian artist Robert Dickerson commands from A$80,000 for a painting today?
Did you know that Claire Clairmont blamed Lord Byron for the death of their daughter Allegra Byron?
Did you know that Hans P. Kraus claimed he was the only bookdealer to have owned both a Gutenberg Bible and the two Mainz Psalters?
Did you know that Ince Manor and Saighton Grange Gatehouse are the only two surviving monastic manorial buildings in Cheshire, UK?
Did you know that Japanese film tycoon Haruki Kadokawa built a full-size replica of Columbus' flagship Santa Maria which sailed from Barcelona to Japan?
Did you know that Miller's Court in Dorset Street was the location of the last murder by Jack the Ripper on 9 November 1888?
Did you know that Omaha, Nebraska's Peony Park became famous after the Lawrence Welk Band made it their official headquarters during the Great Depression?
Did you know that Taipei Mayor Hau Lung-pin refused to update signage at nearby bus and metro stops to reflect the disputed renaming of the "Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall" to "National Taiwan Democracy Memorial Hall"?
Did you know that a year after Richard William Briginshaw entered the House of Lords as a life peer, he wrote a pamphlet calling for it to be abolished?
Did you know that approximately half of the distributed water in Ghana is lost as non-revenue water due to leakage and illegal connections?
Did you know that due to its economic growth, Taiwan served as a showcase for Japan's propaganda on the colonial efforts throughout Asia, as displayed during the 1935 Taiwan Exposition?
Did you know that scientists are unsure why Lake Phalen, in Saint Paul, Minnesota, is home to a population of rainbow darters, a fish normally found in fast-moving streams?
Did you know that the Comer Strait in the Canadian Arctic, and the Gallinula comeri, the flightless moorhen of Gough Island, were both named after whaling Captain George Comer?
Did you know that the Congolese artist Bodys Isek Kingelez was a restorer of African tribal masks before he began to create his models of fantasy cities?
Did you know that the Frédéric Chopin monument in Warsaw, Poland, was designed by Wacław Szymanowski in 1907, erected in 1926, destroyed by the Germans in 1940, and reconstructed in 1958?
Did you know that the Tang Dynasty general Wang Zhongsi was raised inside the palace of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang after Wang's father was killed in battle in army service when he was still young?
Did you know that the Temple of Divus Augustus was a major temple in imperial Rome dedicated to the first Roman emperor, Augustus, and completed by his adoptive grandson Caligula?
Did you know that the tallest building in Minneapolis, Minnesota is the 792-foot (241 m) IDS Tower?
Did you know that , by the time the Florida Supreme Court finally ruled that William D. Bloxham had won the 1870 Lieutenant Governor election, it was 1872 and the term was effectively over?
Did you know that Amaranthus brownii, an endangered species of pigweed endemic to the  Northwestern Hawaiian Island of Nihoa, was discovered in 1923, but has not been seen in the wild for twenty-five years?
Did you know that Chorley Old Hall, the oldest inhabited country house in Cheshire, consists of two ranges, one medieval (c.1300), the other Elizabethan (mid-16th century)?
Did you know that Cuban Colonel Ramón Barquín, who unsuccessfully attempted to overthrow Fulgencio Batista in 1956, later founded Atlantic College and several other educational institutions while in exile in Puerto Rico?
Did you know that Hulme Arch Bridge in Manchester follows the design of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri, and rejoins two halves of a road that was sundered in 1969?
Did you know that Karl Schnibbe was one of a group of three Hamburg teenagers arrested by the Gestapo in Nazi Germany during World War II for distributing anti-Hitler pamphlets?
Did you know that Manitoba Provincial Road 373 became famous after a band from Norway House won an award for an album named after the highway?
Did you know that Scottish footballer John Cushley was a modern-languages graduate who acted as translator when Celtic F.C. attempted to sign Real Madrid striker Alfredo Di Stéfano in 1964?
Did you know that after being captured by the rebel ruler An Lushan, the Tang Dynasty general Geshu Han offered to write letters to persuade other Tang generals to surrender to An?
Did you know that after making the first ascent of the remote Mount Lucania, Robert Bates was forced to survive on squirrels and mushrooms during his 156-mile (251 km) trek out of the wilderness?
Did you know that although Desmond Lardner-Burke, Minister of Justice in Rhodesia, died in the 1980s, his name appeared on the electoral roll for the Zimbabwean parliamentary election, 2008?
Did you know that dairyman Henry W. Jeffers, a founder of Plainsboro Township, New Jersey, invented a bacteriology counter, a feed calculator, and an automated cow-milking system?
Did you know that mutations of the ATN1 gene result in dentatorubral-pallidoluysian atrophy, a neurological disorder with diverse problems as dementia, ataxia, seizures and obstructive sleep apnea?
Did you know that slate and stylus were invented by Louis Braille and Charles Barbier for blind people to write braille?
Did you know that the 1944 Appalachians tornado outbreak was the worst tornado outbreak in the history of West Virginia?
Did you know that the Roanoke Building sits on the site of a former building by the same name that was once an official climate site for the National Weather Service?
Did you know that the edible mushroom Marasmius alliaceus tastes and smells like garlic?
Did you know that the traditional Scottish folk song Ye Jacobites by Name was re-written by Robert Burns around 1791?
Did you know that 'Opaeka'a Falls on the Hawaiian island of Kauai is named after the native freshwater shrimp ("rolling shrimp" in Hawaiian) that "roll" down the falls?
Did you know that Alene B. Duerk, head of the Navy Nurse Corps, was the first woman in the U.S. Navy to be promoted to the rank of Rear Admiral?
Did you know that Cuban First Lady Marta Fernandez Miranda de Batista became a contributor to Miami's  Jackson Memorial Hospital while in exile in Florida?
Did you know that Edward Cocker's Arithmetick was such a popular textbook of mathematics that over 100 editions were published over a period of more than a century?
Did you know that KILI-FM started broadcasting in 1983 as the first Native American-owned radio station in the United States?
Did you know that Mavia was an Arab queen who in 378 AD  personally led her troops out of southern Syria in revolt against Roman rule?
Did you know that Moses, the first Arab Orthodox bishop, administered his duties while journeying with a nomadic confederation of Arabs in the fourth century?
Did you know that Puslinch Lake is the largest kettle lake in North America?
Did you know that Stalag fiction was a genre of Israeli pornography about concentration-camp imprisonment, brutalization by female SS guards, and the prisoners' revenge?
Did you know that Vice-Admiral Samuel Story was forced to surrender his Batavian fleet to the British navy without a fight in August 1799 because his officers started a mutiny?
Did you know that according to Muisca mythology, Bochica (statue pictured) saved his people from a flood by creating the Tequendama Falls with a strike from his staff?
Did you know that according to his hagiography, Saint Severus of Naples temporarily brought a man back from death in order to testify on the size of his debt and save his widow from slavery?
Did you know that despite dramatically improving the quality of education at Transylvania University, Horace Holley was forced to resign as the university's president over doctrinal differences with the Presbyterian Church?
Did you know that despite inundating Omaha, Nebraska for more than 26 days the Great Flood of 1881 killed only two people there?
Did you know that during the English Civil War, the Crown Inn in Nantwich, Cheshire was used as a place of worship, as the church was used as a prison?
Did you know that legendary Polish boxing champion Antoni Czortek fought for his life in boxing matches while at Auschwitz?