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Did you know that the Fox television series Herman's Head used characters to represent different aspect of the main character's psyche, similar to Eric Berne's concept of transactional analysis?
Did you know that the earliest record of Gaelic handball is the 1527 town statutes of Galway, Ireland, which forbade the playing of ball games against the walls?
Did you know that the tangent piano is a rare keyboard instrument that fuses the sound of the harpsichord and piano?
Did you know that tusk shells are a class of marine mollusks that resemble elephants' tusks, and were used by the natives of the Pacific Northwest as wampum?
Did you know that Franz Liszt's Piano Sonata in B minor was influenced by Franz Schubert's Wanderer Fantasy?
Did you know that in the ionization chamber of a smoke detector, ions strike smoke particles and are neutralized, and this drop in current triggers the alarm?
Did you know that the Saladin tithe was levied in England in 1188 to help finance the Third Crusade?
Did you know that the only international cricket in South Africa between 1971 and 1981 comprised 6 private tours and 1 women's test match, because no test match playing nation was willing to tour the country because of its apartheid policy?
Did you know that Nancy Olson was nominated for an Oscar for playing the "good" girl in Sunset Boulevard shortly after being considered for the role of the temptress Delilah in the film Samson and Delilah?
Did you know that U.S. Ambassador Charles E. Bohlen received the secret protocol to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, which contained an understanding between Hitler and Stalin to split Central Europe, from German diplomat Hans von Herwarth?
Did you know that professional wrestler Gorilla Monsoon grew a long beard and billed himself as a terrifying giant from Manchuria as a heel gimmick?
Did you know that the Great Lakes Storm of 1913 was the deadliest natural disaster to hit the Great Lakes basin region, killing over 250 people?
Did you know that black seadevils are a family of anglerfish named for their baleful appearance and pitch black skin?
Did you know that ignorantia juris non excusat is Latin for the legal doctrine, "ignorance of the law is no excuse"?
Did you know that in the animated Laff-a-Lympics, non-competing Hanna-Barbera characters such as Fred Flintstone and Jabberjaw made appearances as guest announcers?
Did you know that medieval pilgrims on the Way of St James would join up at the French Basque town of Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port before crossing the Pyrenees?
Did you know that Aquarius is the world's only underwater research facility?
Did you know that Elecia Battle, who claimed to have a 162 million dollar lottery winning ticket, is a professional female boxer?
Did you know that the film Dangerous Minds was based on the true story by the high school teacher Louanne Johnson, My Posse Don't Do Homework?
Did you know that there are multiple theories why LMLK seals were stamped on the handles of large storage jars in and around Jerusalem circa 700 BC?
Did you know that Reginald Hill's novel "A Clubbable Woman" was his first story about Dalziel and Pascoe?
Did you know that the Battle of Appomattox Court House signalled the end of the American Civil War?
Did you know that the Squirrel Nut Zippers were influenced by the energetic sounds of 1920s hot jazz?
Did you know that tumor markers are chemical substances found in blood that arise from the presence of cancerous tissues?
Did you know that the film David and Lisa, shot in black-and-white for just $183,000, was nominated for the 1962 Academy Award for Directing?
Did you know that Julia A. Moore inspired the character of Emmeline Grangerford in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?
Did you know that rugby player Wayne Shelford suffered a ripped scrotum during an All Blacks match against France?
Did you know that the Asiatic Society of Bombay possesses one of the only two surviving original copies of Dante's The Divine Comedy?
Did you know that a fire-control system is a computer which is designed to assist a weapon system in hitting its target(s)?
Did you know that girls in Poland wear red lingerie underneath their dresses during a studniówka (high school ball)?
Did you know that the first person to formally convert to Buddhism in America was Charles T. Strauss, a New York businessman, in 1893?
Did you know that the poorly studied Evermannellidae family, or Sabertooth fish, have oversized, inward curving teeth suggestive of the sabertooth cats' teeth?
Did you know that Playland, often called Rye Playland,  is America's only government owned and operated amusement park?
Did you know that faculty members at the Stanford Institute for International Studies include Condoleezza Rice and William Perry?
Did you know that scotopic sensitivity syndrome is a form of dyslexia which makes it very difficult for a person to read black text on white paper?
Did you know that the Western Railway Corridor, built in the late 1800s, links Limerick to Sligo through the West of Ireland?
Did you know that Godfrey Ho, a Hong-Kong based filmmaker, has been credited under more than 20 different pseudonyms?
Did you know that Leonid Kadeniuk, the first astronaut of the independent Ukraine, made his first space flight on NASA's space shuttle Columbia in 1997, and had been training for such a mission since 1976?
Did you know that the ancient marketplace of Rhapta on the east African coast is believed to have been an important link in bringing the spices cinnamon and cassia west by merchants?
Did you know that the clapping game Mary Mack may refer to the Battle of Hampton Roads?
Did you know that Hamilton Palace in Scotland  was lent for use as a naval hospital during World War I, by Alfred Douglas-Hamilton, 13th Duke of Hamilton?
Did you know that Hungarian-born composer Mátyás Seiber was killed in a car crash while on a lecture tour of South Africa?
Did you know that Obolon CJSC, the  largest Ukrainian brewer based in Kiev, was the first private company of the independent Ukraine?
Did you know that a Pd/H2 electrode is a reference electrode similar to a standard hydrogen electrode (with platinum), but with the added ability to absorb molecular hydrogen?
Did you know that Devils & Dust, the upcoming folk album from Bruce Springsteen, will be his nineteenth released album?
Did you know that Andy the Clown performed at Chicago White Sox games for 30 years, outlasting an attempt to replace him with two new mascots?
Did you know that Arthur Ronald Nall Nall-Cain, 2nd Baron Brocket—grandfather of British TV celebrity Lord Brocket—was a known Nazi sympathiser?
Did you know that Elmer Robinson was the 33rd mayor of San Francisco?
Did you know that Ferdinandea was a volcanic island near Sicily which was claimed by four countries when it appeared in 1831, but was destroyed by erosion less than a year later?
Did you know that Representative Edith Nourse Rogers sponsored the G.I. Bill and the legislation that created the Women's Army Corps before becoming the longest-serving woman in the U.S. Congress?
Did you know that The Patty Duke Show challenged the scope of special effects on television in the 1960s, with Patty Duke playing two roles?
Did you know that the Slovakia Summit 2005 between Presidents Bush and Putin will mark the first occasion when a sitting President of the United States visits Slovakia?
Did you know that Sue Rubin, the subject of the documentary film Autism Is a World, was considered mentally challenged until she learned to communicate with a keyboard?
Did you know that empty nest syndrome is a form of depression that affects parents when a child leaves home?
Did you know that in the history of neurology, Ancient Egyptians described the effect of high transection of the spinal cord in humans?
Did you know that the Slovak National Theatre hosted its first performance, the Czech opera Hubička by Bedřich Smetana, at its opening on March 1, 1920?
Did you know that Boxcar is an Australian electronic band that sometimes performed wearing gas masks?
Did you know that The Yiddish King Lear by Jacob Gordin is not a translation of Shakespeare's King Lear, but that the title is an acknowledgement of the roots of the plot?
Did you know that Ulysses S. Grant awarded Bolama to Portugal, who made it the first capital of Portuguese Guinea?
Did you know that when he was promoted to president of the Great Northern Railway in 1919, Ralph Budd was the youngest American railroad president up to that date?
Did you know that an amateur baseball tournament held on August 16, 1933 in the Christie Pits, ended with Nazi-sympathisers unveiling a flag depicting a swastika?
Did you know that during the "dawn-to-dusk" publicity run for the CB&Q's Pioneer Zephyr on May 26 1934, the train reached a top speed of 112.5 mph (181 kph)?
Did you know that school bus yellow is a specific shade of yellow formally adopted as the standard color for school buses in the United States in 1939, following a conference funded by the Rockefeller Foundation?
Did you know that Leo Tolstoy's play The Living Corpse played in New York City in both Yiddish (1911) and German (1916) before it was ever presented there in English (1918)?
Did you know that the Russian avant-garde art collective UNOVIS signed most of their works with a single black square, partly as a homage to a similar work by their leader, Kazimir Malevich?
Did you know that weatherman Alex Deakin has a masters degree in astrophysics?
Did you know that Melissa McIntyre, best known for her role in Degrassi: The Next Generation made her television debut in the 1997 series, Timesweep, in which she played an extraterrestial being?
Did you know that Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev worked on mechanical linkage design for over thirty years which led to his work on Chebyshev polynomials?
Did you know that Robert Koldewey led an archeological dig in modern day Iraq which he believed to be the location of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon for 18 years?
Did you know that the Meadow Vole is a common rodent species found from Alaska to Florida, and that the subspecies from Florida is endangered?
Did you know that a Punnett square is a tool in genetics developed by British geneticist Reginald Punnett, and which biologists use to this day to predict the probability of possible genotypes of offspring?
Did you know that from 1908 to 1940, over 100,000 of the 447 different models for Sears Catalog Homes were sold in the United States?
Did you know that the Ochil Hills are a Devonian lava extrusion whose southern fault line is particularly prominent today as an escarpment?
Did you know that Italian mathematician Guido Castelnuovo secretly taught geometry to Jewish students during World War II?
Did you know that NASA inventor and scientist, Dr. Pedro Rodriguez is the son of the renowned Puerto Rican salsa singer, the late  Pellin Rodriguez?
Did you know that the Nasrani Menorah is the symbol of the Knanaya community in South India, acknowledged as Christian Jews by the Vatican?
Did you know that the UN estimates that 150,000 people died during the Liberian Civil War, with 850,000 refugees fleeing to neighboring countries?
Did you know that Nils Liedholm is the last surviving member of the famous footballing Gre-No-Li trio?
Did you know that the children's anime series The Littl' Bits has aired in Japanese, English, Spanish, Polish, German, and Italian?
Did you know that Barbarossa is an award-winning German-style board game by Klaus Teuber from 1988 in which the players have to sculpt plasticine to earn points?
Did you know that while mine owner Franklin B. Gowen was the president of the Reading Railroad, he was also the special prosecutor in the trial to break up the clandestine Molly Maguires society?
Did you know that Dutch magician Fred Kaps was the only magician to win the magic world championship three times?
Did you know that Mary Hallaren was the first woman to join the United States Army?
Did you know that in Lebanon, the spice mixture Za'atar is thought to bring physical strength and keep the mind alert?
Did you know that sow thistles are named because they were fed to lactating sows?
Did you know that Lysa Hora hill in the Ukrainian capital Kiev is both a historical fortress and a mystical "bold mountain" where witches are believed to gather for their sabbaths?
Did you know that despite a sight-impairment disability, Carl G. Fisher became a notable American entrepreneur, who helped develop sealed beam headlights, the Lincoln Highway (the first U.S. transcontinental paved roadway), the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, and the resort city of Miami Beach, Florida?
Did you know that the 2004 Dean v. Utica U.S. federal case expanded the First Amendment rights of high school journalists, which had been limited by the Supreme Court's 1988 Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier ruling?
Did you know that the High Bridge that still stands over the Harlem River in New York City was designed by John B. Jervis as part of the Croton Aqueduct project in the 1840s?
Did you know that Kyiv Arsenal is one of the oldest and most famous industrial companies of the Ukrainian capital Kiev?
Did you know that Nat Lofthouse was the England football team's highest goalscorer of all-time for eight years?
Did you know that parlour music is a term used to describe the unified style common to popular and semi-popular European lite-classical and popular, and folk-like music from  1790 until 1900?
Did you know that rocket engine maker Thiokol, who made the Space Shuttle's booster rockets,  also built airbags for Mars Pathfinder and the Mazda Miata?
Did you know that sandwich toasters are sometimes called "jaffle irons" in Australia?
Did you know that the Bovo-Bukh, a very popular chivalric romances written in Yiddish, was based on the Anglo-Norman romance of Sir Bevis of Hampton, by way of the Italian language romance of Buovo d'Antona?
Did you know that the flightless adzebill was a large predatory bird that lived in New Zealand, and was initially thought to be a kind of moa?
Did you know that the sled dog Togo is considered one of the heroes commemorated by the Iditarod dog sled race which is currently running across the U.S. state of Alaska?
Did you know that Robert Mardian, the political co-ordinator for the Committee to Re-elect the President, was convicted for his part in the Watergate scandal but later had the conviction overturned because his lawyer had fallen ill?
Did you know that The J.M. Smucker Co. was granted a patent on a sealed crustless sandwich, a type of peanut butter and jelly sandwich and it is often used as an example of a frivolous patent?
Did you know that a double tonic is a basic chord progression or melodic motion extremely common in African, Asian, and European music consisting of a "regular back-and-forth motion" most commonly between notes a whole tone apart?
Did you know that the passamezzo antico was a favorite chord progression in sixteenth-century Europe, whose variants later include the passamezzo moderno or Gregory Walker, the American Gregory Walker, and the twelve bar blues?
Did you know that with the Secret Treaty of Dover signed between England and France, King Charles II attempted to convert England to Catholicism?
Did you know that Stan Mortensen scored a hat-trick in the 1953 FA Cup Final at Wembley, becoming the first player ever to do so?
Did you know that a congressional reporter mistranscribed testimony about a U.S. nuclear test from 1962 named Sedan nuclear test, leading to fears that a nuclear weapon had actually been tested in the Sudan?
Did you know that tree frogs have been used as barometers because they respond to approaching rain by croaking?
Did you know that England football captain Eddie Hapgood was forced by diplomats to give a Nazi salute before a match with Germany in 1938?
Did you know that blues-harp, rather than a type of harp, is a style of playing an ordinary diatonic harmonica that originated in the blues in which the in-drawn notes are made primary and the blown notes secondary?
Did you know that the BBC coat of arms was adopted in 1927 and uses heraldic symbols to depict the various qualities of broadcasting?
Did you know that the Williams X-Jet is a tiny flying platform that can carry a person for up to 45 minutes at speeds of up to 60 miles per hour (96 km/h) and heights of up to 10,000 ft (3,050 m)?
Did you know that Antonín Dvořák's Cello Concerto in b minor was considered so great that Johannes Brahms, the composer's mentor who had never written one himself, commented: "Why on earth didn't I know that one could write a cello concerto like this? If I had only known, I would have written one long ago!"?
Did you know that Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands appointed the task of guarding the royal palaces to the Koninklijke Marechaussee (Royal Constabulary) in 1908?
Did you know that the General Ban Chao led a Chinese military expedition to the doorstep of Europe during the 1st century CE?
Did you know that a bass run is an instrumental break in which the main vocal or melody line rests and the bass instruments and line are given the forefront?
Did you know that although Admiral Robert Calder arguably saved Britain from invasion in the battle of Cape Finisterre he was court-martialled for his failure to win a more decisive victory?
Did you know that Disney characters will regularly appear in 3D on television for the first time in the children's television series Disney's Mickey Mouse Clubhouse?
Did you know that the Panjdeh Incident in 1886 almost led to full-scale war between the British Empire and Imperial Russia?
Did you know that Angel Ramos, the founder of the second-largest Spanish speaking television network in the United States, Telemundo, was orphaned at the age of 3?
Did you know that Roman embassies to China are reported in Chinese historical accounts from as early as 166?
Did you know that United Kingdom corporation tax is charged with reference to accounting periods?
Did you know that death due to the Parapoxvirus is one of the main reasons for the decline of the number of Red squirrels on the British Isles?
Did you know that Joseph Haines was a well-known London song-and-dance man, comedian, and eccentric in the 17th century?
Did you know that actress Peggy McCay, now known for her role on Days of our Lives, first became popular as the heroine on Love of Life in 1951?
Did you know that in 1969 noted writer Norman Mailer ran for Mayor of New York City advocating New York City secession?
Did you know that the 1402 Korean Kangnido map fully depicts the Old World, from Europe and Africa to Japan, long before European explorations?
Did you know that Skeleton Lake in India is named after the remains of approximately 600 people who died there in a sudden hailstorm?
Did you know that in the 1950s and 1960s, some residents of mid-rise apartment buildings would sleep outside on their fire escapes during hot summers?
Did you know that the England football squad for the 1986 World Cup in Mexico contained two players called Gary Stevens?
Did you know that up to 2 million people may be living in Russian closed cities, which are off-limits to foreigners because they have sensitive military and nuclear industry?
Did you know that Dr. Angel Ramos is one of the few deaf Hispanics in the United States to hold a doctorate?
Did you know that Ninety Mile Beach in Victoria, Australia is the longest uninterrupted stretch of sandy coastline in the world?
Did you know that Russian-born Yiddish playwright Peretz Hirshbein tried his hand at farming, both in the Catskills and in Argentina?
Did you know that in Operation Saturn, the Red Army drove the Axis Powers out of the Caucasus and back across the Donets River in the winter of 1942–1943?
Did you know that Anthony T. Rossi invented a process to pack pure chilled orange juice, and founded Tropicana Products in 1947?
Did you know that Mather Tower, the headquarters building for Mather Stock Car Company built in 1928 in Chicago, Illinois, has the smallest floor size of any of Chicago's skyscrapers?
Did you know that cardiac surgeon William Mustard developed the Mustard cardiovascular procedure to correct blue baby syndrome?
Did you know that the Common Travel Area which allows Irish and British people to travel without passports between their countries is the result of the lack of any law requiring a passport?
Did you know that Alonzo C. Mather was awarded a medal in 1883 by the American Humane Society for the humane treatment of the livestock transported in railroad stock cars he designed?
Did you know that Rose is the first new episode of Doctor Who to be shown since 1989?
Did you know that fans in the Dawg Pound at Cleveland Browns Stadium used to throw dog food at opposing players?
Did you know that the Florida Lottery's Lotto game was the first single-state lottery in the United States to have a jackpot over US$100 million, on the September 14, 1990 drawing?
Did you know that Double Gloucester cheese is made from a mixture of milk taken in the morning and evening?
Did you know that John S. Collins, who came to southern Florida to grow vegetables and coconuts on a barrier island, built a 2.5 mile long wooden Collins Bridge across Biscayne Bay in 1913 which led to the development of Miami Beach?
Did you know that sashimono were small banners worn on the backs of Japanese  medieval troops for identification during battles?
Did you know that the Interactive Urine Communicator is a marketing device used in urinals?
Did you know that the Soviet Red Army's T-10 heavy tank was originally named IS-10 for Iosif Stalin (Joseph Stalin), but was renamed in the climate of de-Stalinization?
Did you know that the crews of even the most heavily-armoured tanks try to take advantage of protective terrain in combat, by moving their vehicles into hull-down positions whenever possible?
Did you know that the famous Hit Factory recording studio in New York City recently closed down after 12 years of operation?
Did you know that Captain Alexander Hood of the Royal Navy was killed in battle between his ship Mars and the French Hercule in 1798?
Did you know that an automatic number plate recognition system uses optical character recognition to read the license plates on vehicles?
Did you know that enaptin has the second-longest chemical name to be written down, at 64,060 letters?
Did you know that Admiral Alexander Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport of the Royal Navy was elevated to the peerage for his exploits in the Battle of the Glorious First of June?
Did you know that Alvin Adams founded Adams and Company, forerunner to Adams Express Company, to haul express freight shipments by rail in 1840?
Did you know that C is for Cookie is a song by Joe Raposo, first performed on Sesame Street by Cookie Monster on March 28, 1972?
Did you know that King George V of the United Kingdom was a member of the Society for the Prevention of Calling Sleeping Car Porters "George"?
Did you know that Loys Bourgeois, a French Renaissance composer, was sent to jail for changing a few notes in a hymn tune?
Did you know that the Swedish government canceled a short film about AIDS that they commissioned from film director Roy Andersson because he had made it "too dark in its message"?
Did you know that the eighth century bishop and saint Rupert of Salzburg set up his base in the old Roman town of Juvavum and renamed it Salzburg?
Did you know that the world's first geothermal power station was built in Larderello, Italy in 1911?
Did you know that tiao-kuai is the quasi-federal administration system in China?
Did you know that A Year in the Merde by Stephen Clarke is a humorous look at the tense Franco-British relations during the time of the 2003 invasion of Iraq?
Did you know that Jesus spelled backwards sounds a bit like sausage?
Did you know that a bulbous bow can increase a ship's fuel efficiency by as much as 15%?
Did you know that the BMT Sea Beach Line has at times hosted the fastest express train service between Manhattan and Coney Island, but now carries only local trains of the New York City Subway, and doesn't even reach Coney Island due to reconstruction?
Did you know that the Sedlec Ossuary is a chapel decorated with the bones of 40,000 people?
Did you know that Arcadia University changed its name from Beaver College because the latter "too often elicited ridicule in the form of derogatory remarks"?