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Did you know that Gerald Long, an incoming Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate, is believed to be the only Long family member to have held significant public office in Louisiana outside the Democratic Party?
Did you know that Gun Hill Road in the Bronx was proposed to become the Gun Hill Crosstown Expressway?
Did you know that Jerome Avenue is one of three streets in the Bronx with a whole subway line following it?
Did you know that King Richard I of England was killed while beseiging the small castle of Château de Chalus-Chabrol, which was under the control of Aimar V of Limoges?
Did you know that Susan Hadden, an Internet affairs advisor to Al Gore, was killed by bandits while visiting Angkor Wat?
Did you know that after Robert de Ferrers, the 6th Earl of Derby was pardoned for his part in a civil war against King Edward I, he rebelled again?
Did you know that although it was destroyed by the Jordanian Arab Legion in the 1948 War, the moshav Atarot is now the site of Jerusalem's largest industrial park?
Did you know that in 1882 impresario Alfred Schulz-Curtius organized the first performance ever in the UK of Wagner's's epic operatic Ring Cycle?
Did you know that the Pterodactyl Ascender has been one of the most influential designs in ultralight aviation?
Did you know that the Raphael Cartoons (example pictured), tapestry designs from 1515 which are among the most influential works of Renaissance art, remained torn into strips for 175 years?
Did you know that the Saint Paul City Hall and Ramsey County Courthouse is an Art Deco skyscraper adorned with artwork by Lee Lawrie, Carl Milles, John W. Norton, and Albert Stewart?
Did you know that the assassination of Bazin, a French labor recruiter in Vietnam, was the first attack by the revolutionary Viet Nam Quoc Dan Dang?
Did you know that the famous Roman "first growth" wine Falernian was made from the Aglianico grape which is still being used to make wine today?
Did you know that the militants of the Viet Nam Quoc Dan Dang were given training in Yunnan in China by the Kuomintang, but then went on to engage in robbery on KMT territory?
Did you know that the veneration of Saints Felinus and Gratian, which has a weak historical foundation, has been alleged to have been created to further the interests of Perugia?
Did you know that when Mark DeSantis lost the 2007 Pittsburgh mayoral election  to Luke Ravenstahl by thirty percentage points, it was the best performance by a Republican Party candidate in Pittsburgh in over thirty years?
Did you know that wine from the Greek island of Chios, prized in both classical Greece and ancient Rome, was according to mythology the first red wine?
Did you know that Ève Curie did not receive a Nobel Prize, unlike her parents Marie and Pierre, her sister Irène, and, on behalf of UNICEF, her husband Henry Richardson Labouisse, Jr.?
Did you know that 1992 was the only year the American Society of Journalists and Authors presented the Conscience-in-Media Award to more than one journalist?
Did you know that 4,400 year old dugout canoes have been found at the bottom of Lake Phelps in Pettigrew State Park, a North Carolina state park named for J. Johnston Pettigrew, a hero of the Battle of Gettysburg?
Did you know that Alpha Kappa Alpha founder Sarah Meriweather Nutter visited Grover Cleveland's grave, and cut a portion of ivy to plant at Howard University?
Did you know that Anglican clergyman Chad Varah founded the Samaritans, the world's first crisis hotline, in 1953, at a time when he was also writing for the Eagle comic?
Did you know that Bonawentura Niemojowski, a Polish politician during the Congress Poland period, became one of the most vocal supporters of the November Uprising against the Russian Empire and a leader of the revolutionary Polish government?
Did you know that Gerard of Lunel became widely venerated after it was reported snakes carried bread to him and his brother while they were trapped by a flood in a cave?
Did you know that Jerrold Wexler helped save a transaction to purchase the Denver Nuggets, helped save Goldblatt's from bankruptcy and led the Drake Hotel to a National Register of Historic Places listing?
Did you know that Julia Evangeline Brooks, an incorporator of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, was a dean of girls at Danbury High School?
Did you know that Peire d'Alvernhe is the only troubadour in whose works appear the Occitan phrase for "courtly love"?
Did you know that Serhii Vasylkivsky was the first painter after Taras Shevchenko to draw upon Ukrainian historical and ethnographic themes?
Did you know that Sir Rowland Whitehead, 5th Baronet was a Briton born in Kenya, a banker engaged with charities, a hyperpolyglot who wrote about cybernetics, and a church warden who skydived?
Did you know that Wendy Kaminer's critique of the self-help movement, I'm Dysfunctional, You're Dysfunctional, was highlighted among The New York Times' "Notable Books of the Year 1992"?
Did you know that after Anthony Kemp returned to England where he was questioned about his involvement in the overthrow of William Bligh as Governor of New South Wales, he again went south and became known as the "father of Tasmania"?
Did you know that despite having only $300,000 to the incumbent's $4 million in campaign funds, Greg Ballard won the 2007 mayoral election in Indianapolis, one of the biggest electoral upsets in Indiana history?
Did you know that famous tenor Antonio Giuglini used to jaywalk through traffic on London's Brompton Road while flying his kite?
Did you know that global warming has had a positive effect on the Tasmanian wine industry allowing it to grow grapes more successfully than what would otherwise be possible?
Did you know that in 2007, Phil Collins' 1981 hit "In the Air Tonight" reached Number 13 in the UK Singles Chart after appearing in Cadbury's  Gorilla advertising campaign?
Did you know that the British Hawkins-class heavy cruiser HMS Frobisher in 1944 was involved in Operation Neptune as a member of Gunfire Bombardment Support Force D allocated to Sword Beach in the D-Day landings?
Did you know that the McGhee Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies in Alanya is run by Georgetown University as the only independent study program in Turkey?
Did you know that the brightly coloured shells of the Liguus snails are so prized by collectors that some varieties are now extinct?
Did you know that the civil rights of Panama's Chinese minority, today the largest in Central America, were curtailed from 1903 until they received full citizenship under the constitution passed in 1946?
Did you know that Alan Entwistle, a leading Hindi language scholar, continued researching for ten years despite a terminal brain tumour?
Did you know that Charles Hucker, a leading historian on Imperial China, was awarded the Bronze Star in World War II and wrote plays?
Did you know that Florida attorney Ellis Rubin claimed his client  was driven to nymphomania by the side-effects of Prozac?
Did you know that Gal, Bishop of Clermont was known to be so even-tempered that once a man who had insulted him repented on the spot and threw himself at his feet?
Did you know that J. L. Wilkinson was named the manager of the All Nations professional baseball team after the previous manager absconded with the gate proceeds?
Did you know that Lauriston Sharp, a professor of anthropology at Cornell University, studied the indigenous culture of four continents?
Did you know that Rajo Jack, one of the first African-American racecar drivers, pretended to be Portuguese to avoid racism?
Did you know that Ramon Zamora, the Filipino film actor popularly dubbed the "Bruce Lee of the Philippines," won an award imitating Adolf Hitler on the gag show Super Laff-In?
Did you know that Sisnando Davides, a Mozarab who had previously served Abbadid Seville, was the first Christian governor of Coimbra and Toledo after their reconquest?
Did you know that The Big Blowdown, a crime novel by American author George Pelecanos, was the recipient of the International Crime Novel of the Year award in France, Germany and Japan?
Did you know that although flowers of the deciduous tree Tilia tomentosa are pollinated by honeybees, the nectar is somewhat toxic to bumblebees?
Did you know that synthetic analogues of camptothecin, a cytotoxic quinoline alkaloid isolated from the Chinese tree Camptotheca acuminata, are being used as anti-cancer drugs?
Did you know that tariffs imposed by the Austrian Empire on the export of Piedmontese wines to Austrian controlled areas of Italy was one of the underlying sparks of the revolutions of 1848–1849?
Did you know that the British composer William Denis Browne chose the grave site on Skyros for his friend, poet Rupert Brooke, just months before he himself was killed in the Gallipoli campaign of World War I?
Did you know that the British motor tanker SS Atheltempler, part of Convoy PQ-18 to aid the Soviet Union in the war against Nazi Germany, was sunk north of Bear Island?
Did you know that the Doric-style temple in Mote Park near Maidstone in Kent commemorates the review by George III and William Pitt the Younger of a militia formed to repel Napoleon?
Did you know that the German scientist Günter Wirths was brought to the Soviet Union after World War II, where he later was awarded a Stalin Prize for his contribution to the Soviet atomic bomb project?
Did you know that the Nurses and Midwives Tribunal of New South Wales can order the suspension or removal of a nurse or midwife from practice?
Did you know that the Pasig River reverses its flow of water from Manila Bay to Laguna de Bay when there is a high tide during the dry season?
Did you know that the covering of the Senne River (construction pictured) created the major boulevards of Brussels?
Did you know that the history of sherry has been greatly influenced by many of the world's major empires and civilizations including the Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Moors, Spanish and English?
Did you know that the seventh century hermit Goar of Aquitaine is said to have suspended his cloak on a beam of sunlight?
Did you know that the sweating mushroom is called so from the symptoms of its poisoning?
Did you know that when  Barry Cohen sued under the Hyde Amendment,   the U.S. Government was forced to pay a record-setting $2.9 million in legal fees  for the "vexatious, frivolous" prosecution of his client?
Did you know that when analyzing relationships of the harvestmen it is found that they are not true spiders, as often believed, but are in fact more closely related to scorpions?
Did you know that when immature, the "death angel" fungus, Amanita ocreata, closely resembles an edible mushroom?
Did you know that Alexei Mikhailovich was the only Imperial Russian Grand Duke to bear the name and patronymic of a Tsar?
Did you know that Bob Woodward has twice won the Worth Bingham Prize: in 1972 for reports on Watergate and in 1987 for covering covert action in United States foreign policy?
Did you know that British submariner Arthur Hezlet torpedoed the heavy cruiser Ashigara, the largest Japanese warship sunk by the Royal Navy Submarine Service during the Second World War?
Did you know that Field Marshal Sir John Stanier was the first British Chief of the General Staff after the Second World War who had not seen active service?
Did you know that Michael Rowntree was Chairman of Oxfam for six years, and is one of only two people ever to be elected as its Chair Emeritus?
Did you know that Mute Swans ring for lunch at the Bishop's Palace in Wells, UK?
Did you know that Trafalgar Square's original fountains were made from stone quarried near Boddam in Aberdeenshire?
Did you know that adjoining the house where the Cato Street conspirators intended to kill all of the cabinet, was the home of Archbishop of York, Edward Harcourt, who was entertaining the Prince Regent and the Dukes of Cambridge, Cumberland and Wellington?
Did you know that aloin, a natural stimulant-laxative produced by the aloe plant, is no longer deemed safe and effective by the US FDA?
Did you know that an operational nuclear reactor and an orbiting satellite are high points in 2007 of science and technology in Colombia?
Did you know that despite British Conservative MP Denis Keegan winning a marginal constituency by over 7,000 votes, he ended his political career after one term, preferring to work for the trade association for television shops?
Did you know that despite a history of identifying Communist intrigues, British Parliamentarian Percy Daines demanded that Marcus Lipton name his sources or withdraw the claim that Kim Philby was a Soviet spy?
Did you know that knopper galls, caused by the eggs laid by gall wasps, develop as a chemically induced distortion of growing acorns on Pedunculate Oak trees?
Did you know that one T206 Honus Wagner baseball card was sold for US$500,000 to Treat Entertainment and Wal-Mart in 1995 for use as the top prize in a promotional contest?
Did you know that one of the founders of modern Russian psychiatry, Pavel Jacobi, brother of the painter Valery Jacobi, participated in the January Uprising in Poland and volunteered in the Army of the Vosges led by Giuseppe Garibaldi?
Did you know that shortly after the Revolution of 1848, the socialist feminist Jeanne Deroin became the first woman to stand in a national election in France?
Did you know that strikebreakers are used more frequently in the US than in any other industrialized country?
Did you know that the Flower class corvette HMS Bryony was sunk before she could even be launched?
Did you know that the Sanskrit literature scholar Barbara Stoler Miller, whose translation of the Bhagavad Gita helped to popularise Indian literature in the United States, also translated Spanish poetry?
Did you know that the coat of arms of Andalusia bears the Pillars of Hercules, the ancient name given to the promontories that flank the entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar?
Did you know that the membership of the Ghanaian national labor federation Trades Union Congress fell by 58% after a law requiring civil servants to be members was repealed in 1966?
Did you know that turret deck ships incurred lower canal tolls because tonnage measurements used to calculate those tolls did not account for the vessels' unique shape?
Did you know that ANDRILL is a scientific drilling project in Antarctica to gather information about global warming over the last 65 million years?
Did you know that Cecil Hobbs began his interest in Southeast Asian history after his career as a missionary in Burma was ended in 1942 by the Japanese invasion?
Did you know that German lawyer Horst Mahler had for his own lawyer the future Chancellor of Germany Gerhard Schröder?
Did you know that Irish actor Paudge Behan is the son of IRA Chief of Staff Cathal Goulding and Beatrice Behan, the widow of playwright Brendan Behan?
Did you know that Major Carl Mothander, the leader of Swedish volunteers in the Estonian War of Independence, later wrote books on Estonian politics that were banned in Finland?
Did you know that New York Journal cartoonist and illustrator Nell Brinkley created the "Brinkley Girl", an iconic representation of independent working women popular in the early 20th century?
Did you know that Oregon's longest covered bridge is the Office Bridge and is the only one west of the Mississippi River with a sidewalk?
Did you know that Rear-Admiral Henry Blagrove, who died in the destruction of HMS Royal Oak in October 1939, was the first Royal Navy flag officer killed in the Second World War?
Did you know that Saint Mary of the Mongols is the only Byzantine church in Constantinople to have remained Eastern Orthodox to this day?
Did you know that South Vietnamese Special Forces under Ngo Dinh Diem, which were used mainly for repressing dissidents, also attacked pagodas during the Buddhist crisis and killed a giant carp that had attracted pilgrims?
Did you know that The O.C.'s music supervisor Alexandra Patsavas worked in the music department of over fifty Roger Corman B-movies before her television debut?
Did you know that U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt personally oversaw the design of the post office in Poughkeepsie, New York?
Did you know that U.S. professor of oriental studies Earl H. Pritchard was the first ever recipient of the Distinguished Civilian Service Medal, in recognition of his work on military intelligence in World War II?
Did you know that actuaries can use the Schuette–Nesbitt formula to calculate the net single premium for life annuities and life insurances?
Did you know that after the death of Ukrainian novelist Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky, a museum was built in his hometown of Vinnytsia, films were made and his son was executed for having counter-revolutionary contacts?
Did you know that before becoming King of the United Kingdom, Edward VII was a frequent visitor to the luxurious Belle Époque brothel Le Chabanais in Paris and had himself built a special "love seat" there?
Did you know that former Swansea mayor Percy Morris called for Swansea Castle to be demolished and redeveloped because it was a "shambles"?
Did you know that in 1708 the Bonnington pavilion in Scotland had a "hall of mirrors" designed to give visitors the illusion that they were standing in the middle of the Corra Linn?
Did you know that research into attitude polarization suggests that when people read research that both supports and contradicts their current views, they come to hold their original attitudes more strongly than before?
Did you know that the Oliver Typewriter Company of Chicago, Illinois produced and sold over one million of the first "visible print" typewriters?
Did you know that the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue caused so many cancellations that Sports Illustrated and its publisher Time Warner had to stop delivery to certain subscribers, such as libraries?
Did you know that the antibody class IgE was discovered by the Japanese scientist Kimishige Ishizaka?
Did you know that the main cargo of the Peggy Stewart, burned in the 1774 Annapolis Tea Party, was not tea but 53 indentured servants?
Did you know that the parents of Anna Seidel, a German Sinologist and expert on Taoism, risked the death penalty by hiding a Jewish friend during World War II?
Did you know that the skink Chalcides colosii was once considered a subspecies of another species, Chalcides ocellatus (named for its ocelli), despite the fact that C. colosii has no ocelli?
Did you know that the use of speech scrolls (example pictured) developed independently in European and Mesoamerican art?
Did you know that though legend says the mid-way bend in Pittsburgh's Armstrong Tunnel was a mistake and that the engineer responsible killed himself in shame, the chief engineer, Vernon R. Covell, did not commit suicide?
Did you know that world champion bridge player Paul Soloway earned the most masterpoints in history?
Did you know that Australian Bob Marshall won the World Amateur Billiards Championship four times and the Australian championship 21 times in a career spanning 50 years?
Did you know that Donald Stone Macdonald was a Korean studies expert who served as mayor of Kwangju while a member of the US Department of State?
Did you know that Felician of Foligno was the first ever bishop to receive the pallium as a symbol of his office?
Did you know that Isocrates developed a personal hatred for Chares of Athens after his closest pupil, General Timotheos, was impeached for refusing to fight in the Battle of Embata during a storm?
Did you know that Michael Garcia has introduced legislation to lower the legislative age of candidacy in Colorado from 25 to 21 after being himself elected at age 26?
Did you know that Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom was a devoted companion to her mother, Queen Victoria, for over forty years?
Did you know that Senator Bob Hagedorn introduced legislation to name John Denver's "Rocky Mountain High" Colorado's second official state song?
Did you know that Sir James Whitehead, 1st Baronet, Lord Mayor of London in 1888-9, replaced the circus-like elements of the Lord Mayor's Show with a State Procession, and was the arbitrator in the London Dock Strike of 1889?
Did you know that Thai history scholar Benjamin Batson took up his field while posted in Bangkok as a university maths lecturer?
Did you know that Truong Dinh, who led a guerrilla army that fought French colonials in southern Vietnam against the orders of Emperor Tu Duc, was so effective that the French thought Tu Duc had supported him secretly?
Did you know that University of Colorado football player Jordon Dizon, one of three finalists for the Dick Butkus Award as America's top collegiate linebacker, attended Waimea High School, the westernmost high school in the United States?
Did you know that a replica of the Old Plantation Flats Light built in 2004 contains the first new lens constructed to Fresnel's patterns in eighty years?
Did you know that during the five years of fighting in the Cabanagem revolt in Brazil, it is estimated that the population of Pará was reduced from about 100,000 to 60,000?
Did you know that in 1953, Polish Air Force pilot Franciszek Jarecki escaped to Denmark with a Soviet MiG-15, which helped the U.S. Air Force in the Korean War?
Did you know that most artists of the Tudor court produced works in many media, including miniatures, panel portraits, illuminated manuscripts, and decorative schemes for masques and tournaments?
Did you know that orange snow fell in February of 2007 in western Siberia?
Did you know that sociologist Ralph Larkin published Comprehending Columbine after teaching about the Columbine High School massacre at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice?
Did you know that the 1948 British Grand Prix was the first motor racing meeting ever held on the Silverstone Circuit, which until then had been an aerodrome?
Did you know that the Sinologist and Confucius expert Herrlee Glessner Creel was a lieutenant colonel in the US Army during World War II?
Did you know that the South Australian wine industry produces more than half of all Australian wines, including the premium Penfolds Grange and many of the mass produced box wines?
Did you know that the cost of transporting crushed stone often exceeds its cost at the quarry?
Did you know that the publishers of Hindustan Ghadar are said to have memorised the names of over a thousand of its subscribers to prevent these being known to British Intelligence?
Did you know that there are three unilingually Swedish municipalities in one province of mainland Finland?
Did you know that 1.5 million people logged on to the website of the cheddar cheese Wedginald to watch it mature?
Did you know that 7th-century duke Waldalenus traded off with the Church his firstborn son against his wife's miraculous fertility?
Did you know that Alabama lawyer and Republican Party pioneer John Grenier of Birmingham was self-taught in four foreign languages: French, Spanish, German, and modern Greek?
Did you know that Alpha Kappa Alpha founder Nellie Pratt Russell is remembered with a building named in her and her husband's honor at St. Paul's College?
Did you know that Calimerius, a 3rd century bishop of Milan, was said to have been killed by being thrown into a well after his relics were found submerged in water?
Did you know that Canada issues special licence plates available only to war veterans?
Did you know that Chen Chi-li, late head of Taiwan's United Bamboo Gang, claimed to have killed dissident journalist Henry Liu out of patriotism, and refused the $20,000 payout he was offered?
Did you know that Clyde Fastlink, a planned £42m dedicated bus service, is an interim measure for Glasgow's proposed light rail system?
Did you know that Edgar Allan Poe's 1848 essay Eureka presaged the Big Bang theory and black holes?
Did you know that Greek temples went from small structures of mud and wood (9th century BC) to the classical stone monuments widely known today (6th century BC)?
Did you know that James Blake Miller, made famous in a 2004 photograph during the Second Battle of Fallujah as the "Marlboro Marine", suffered post-traumatic stress disorder and was discharged exactly one year after his picture made worldwide news?
Did you know that Khanmohammad Ibrahim was the oldest living Indian Test cricketer at the time of his death?