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Did you know that fashion designer Gareth Pugh has earned critical acclaim for his clothing made of inflated PVC (example pictured) but has never sold a single dress?
Did you know that generic antecedents are essential parts of communication; and there are many strategies to refer to them clearly and appropriately?
Did you know that in 1954, the Federal Communications Commission sought to force union attorney Edward Lamb to surrender his broadcasting license on the grounds that he associated with communists?
Did you know that it took a musicologist 12 years to reconstruct the missing portions of the only copy of English Renaissance composer Martin Peerson's Latin motets so they could be published and recorded?
Did you know that long after Lana Stempien died by drowning, someone or something turned on the GPS system on her abandoned boat?
Did you know that the 1975 film Tubby the Tuba marked the first time that computers were used in the production of an animated feature?
Did you know that the Beta Effect, which affects larger tropical cyclones and needs to be accounted for in tropical cyclone forecasting, forces a more northwest tropical cyclone track in the Northern Hemisphere?
Did you know that the Swiss castle Ruine Wulp was at one point torn apart and replaced with a single tower and building?
Did you know that the bust of Ankhhaf, in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, is a realistic portrayal of the features of an actual person, which is rare in Ancient Egyptian art?
Did you know that the lionfish genus Parapterois includes P. heterura, an attractive species uncommon in the aquarium trade, and the poorly known P. macrura?
Did you know that vented cell (or flooded cell) nickel-cadmium batteries are used when large capacities and discharge rates are required?
Did you know that when Katherine Ann Power, a fugitive from justice for 23 years before turning herself in, was on the run in Oregon, she was treated for depression by Courtney Love's mother?
Did you know that when the Workers Party of North Korea was founded in 1946, Kim Il-sung was given the position of Vice Chairman of the party?
Did you know that American John Thayer is the only known first-class cricketer to have died on the RMS Titanic?
Did you know that Canadian Ministers of Finance have a tradition of buying or wearing new shoes on budget day?
Did you know that Charles M. Loring was the father of the park system in Minneapolis, where Horace Cleveland designed the Grand Rounds and Theodore Wirth placed a park near every home?
Did you know that David Lewis and his son Stephen Lewis served simultaneously as the leaders of the Canadian and Ontario New Democratic Party?
Did you know that Emperor Gia Long united Vietnam under the Nguyen dynasty after French missionary Pigneau de Behaine, whom he met in a forest while fleeing the Tay Son dynasty, sought French military assistance?
Did you know that Franz Liszt's symphonic poem Hunnenschlacht was inspired by a painting of the same name by Wilhelm von Kaulbach?
Did you know that Frederick Matthew Darley was offered the position of Chief Justice of New South Wales, Australia, twice, and that he refused it the first time as he would earn less money than if he continued to practise as a barrister?
Did you know that Joseph Smith Jr. instructed that members of the Latter Day Saints' First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve Apostles should be accepted by the church as prophets, seers, and revelators?
Did you know that Lake Kutubu, the largest upland lake in Papua New Guinea, has 12 endemic species of fish?
Did you know that Lt.-Col. Tatsuji Suga of the Imperial Japanese Army and Commander of all POW and civilian internee camps in Borneo in World War 2, was a graduate of the University of Washington?
Did you know that National Cavalry refers to the reformed Polish cavalry, succeeding the famous but obsolete Polish Hussars?
Did you know that Nguyen Van Nhung, who executed Ngo Dinh Diem and Ngo Dinh Nhu following South Vietnam's 1963 coup, was himself executed a few months later, after another coup?
Did you know that Nihonga artist Ogura Yuki was the first woman to be selected chairperson of the Japan Art Academy, and one of only two women painters to be awarded Japan's Order of Culture?
Did you know that Russian admiral  Vasily Zavoyko defended against superior British-French forces in the 1854 Siege of Petropavlovsk, and even captured the British banner?
Did you know that Thomas Lant called the College of Arms "a company full of discord and envy?"
Did you know that Yasa, the sixth arahant of Gautama Buddha, was also the son and former husband of the first two female lay disciples?
Did you know that despite his commitment to historical accuracy, Albrecht Altdorfer's masterpiece The Battle of Alexander at Issus is depicted as occurring in the Alps, in 16th century costume?
Did you know that the Dehousing Paper, presented to the British War Cabinet in 1942, advocated for a strategic bombing campaign of German cities?
Did you know that the French-designed Minié rifle was the dominant infantry weapon of the American Civil War?
Did you know that the Master of the Playing Cards (3 of Birds pictured) was a 15th century German engraver and the first major master in the history of printmaking?
Did you know that the key area of NBA basketball courts was widened to reduce the effectiveness of dominating centers like George Mikan?
Did you know that Bengali nationalism motivated the proposal for a united, independent Bengal as an alternative to the 1947 partition of Bengal?
Did you know that Bhadda Kapilani, the foremost bhikkhuni of Gautama Buddha in understanding past reincarnations, was the former wife of Mahakasyapa, who led the sangha following the Buddha's paranibbana?
Did you know that Judy Morris, co-writer of the Academy Award winning Happy Feet has also acted in many of the most popular North American and Australian television programs since the age of 10?
Did you know that Kannada cinema star Dr. Rajkumar was buried at Kanteerava Studios in Bangalore?
Did you know that Pedro Vuskovic's plan to move Chile's economy to a socialist model by democratic means led to runaway inflation and economic recession?
Did you know that Sam Mbakwe was nicknamed "the weeping governor" for shedding tears when trying to get the federal government of Nigeria to pay more attention to his state?
Did you know that Sarkis Soghanalian, the "Cold War's largest arms merchant", was backed by the CIA and was the primary private arms dealer to Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war?
Did you know that aged 14, Sandra Morgan became the youngest Australian to win a gold medal at the Olympics?
Did you know that like the characters in his television series The Practice and Boston Legal, David E. Kelley worked as a lawyer in a Boston law firm?
Did you know that some species of Iridomyrmex ants have a symbiotic relationship with caterpillars?
Did you know that the Australian legal doctrine of Persona designata allows a judge to exercise non-judicial power, if it has been conferred to the judge personally, rather than to his or her court?
Did you know that the First Tokyo Middle School, one of the top public secondary schools in Japan, expelled all of its Korean international students in 1905 when they demonstrated against the Eulsa Treaty between Japan and Korea?
Did you know that the International Grape Genome Program in Adelaide, Australia discovered that white grapes only exist today due to a rare genetic mutation that took place thousands of years ago?
Did you know that the concentration ability of Augustine Fangi reportedly allowed him to undergo an operation without anesthetic and feel nothing?
Did you know that the concept of cross-boundary subsidies is developed out of a merging of ideas from the studies of landscape ecology and food web ecology?
Did you know that the enigmatic Ediacaran biota (fossil pictured) have been classified into every major group of lifeforms, including their own kingdom?
Did you know that the events of Polish October together with Hungarian November shook the Eastern Bloc in 1956 and set the course for the Revolutions of 1989?
Did you know that the first official Japanese Embassy to the United States occurred in 1860?
Did you know that the preservation movement that resulted in the Chicago Landmark designation began with the 1957 adoption of the Frank Lloyd Wright Robie House?
Did you know that Australian Olympic swimming champion Faith Leech grew up on a diet of carrot juice and beetroot after refusing all other food as a baby?
Did you know that Beighton Cup is the oldest field hockey tournament in the world?
Did you know that Canford Cliffs, an affluent suburb of Poole, Dorset, includes an exclusive branch of HSBC bank which requires that customers without large accounts or mortgages pay to enter?
Did you know that John Downer, Premier of South Australia from 1885 to 1887, is the grandfather of Alexander Downer, the current Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs?
Did you know that Operation Independence, which aimed to crush the Guevarist guerilla ERP, was the first large-scale operation in the Argentine Dirty War?
Did you know that Polish-Jewish and American historian Adam Ulam escaped The Holocaust by leaving to study in the U.S. only days before the Germans invaded Poland?
Did you know that Reginald H. Thomson, the civil engineer responsible for "virtually all of Seattle's infrastructure", had a Ph.D. in philosophy?
Did you know that Sue is the largest, most complete, and best preserved Tyrannosaurus rex fossil ever found?
Did you know that exploitation film director/producer S. S. Millard was able to pass himself off as Romanian nobility when a former Romanian queen visited California?
Did you know that footballer Francis Lee earned his nickname Lee One Pen by setting an English record for the most penalties scored in a single season?
Did you know that in 2005, the newly-upgraded RORO ferry Queen of Oak Bay lost power and crashed into a marina, damaging or destroying 28 other vessels?
Did you know that the Court of Civil Jurisdiction was the first civil court established in New South Wales, Australia?
Did you know that the San Francisco Armory, a National Guard stronghold during the "Bloody Thursday" events of 1934, is now used as a BDSM porn studio?
Did you know that the cities of Viterbo and Narni fought a two-year battle over where the popular nun Lucia Brocadelli of Narni would reside?
Did you know that the history of the Lutheran Church in Malaysia and Singapore dates back to the arrival of Lutheran Hakka refugees following the Taiping Rebellion in China?
Did you know that the life of Han Dynasty poet and composer Cai Wenji is depicted in Eighteen Songs of a Nomad Flute?
Did you know that the pyramid scheme Holiday Magic was investigated by the State of California, the US Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Trade Commission and shut down for fraud?
Did you know that until 1861 Newton Abbot railway station had three separate train sheds  for trains running on lines to and from Exeter, Plymouth, and Torquay?
Did you know that 18th century French artilleries were the most efficient at cannon operation, capable of firing 150 shots per cannon daily during siege?
Did you know that Berne's Christoffelturm, when it was over 500 years old, was pulled down in a political move that had 415 supporters and 412 opposers?
Did you know that Dominican Anthony Neyrot renounced Christianity after being captured by Moorish pirates, but publicly reconverted and was stoned to death at Tunis?
Did you know that Dorus Rijkers was a Dutch lifeboat-captain who saved over 500 men, women and children from drowning at sea?
Did you know that Hugo Stoltzenberg developed the poison gas used at the 1915 Battle of Ypres during World War I?
Did you know that Jerry Zimmerman was the last active Major League Baseball coach to umpire a major league game?
Did you know that Kampong Sungai Teraban in Brunei was settled by a group of Malay fishermen who moved across the Belait River after a falling out with the inhabitants of Kuala Belait?
Did you know that Mother Theresa University, in Vilpatti Panchayat, South India, is the nation's only university exclusively devoted to women's issues?
Did you know that Ninasam, a cultural organization in Karnataka, India, had a project sponsored by the Ford Foundation of the United States?
Did you know that Rajarsi Janakananda, before becoming the leading disciple of Hindu Guru Paramahansa Yogananda, was a self-made American millionaire named James Jesse Lynn?
Did you know that The Mather School in Dorchester, Massachusetts, is the oldest free public elementary school in North America?
Did you know that a nonconvex polygon with three convex vertices is called a pseudotriangle?
Did you know that during the Battle of Dalmatia, Croatian forces were so ill-equipped that they stuffed explosives into Coca-Cola cans to create hand grenades?
Did you know that former Chicago mayor William Hale Thompson was cast in the 1927 silent exploitation film Is Your Daughter Safe? to ensure it would pass the city's censorship boards?
Did you know that in Barnes v. Glen Theatre, Inc., the United States Supreme Court declared that "nudity itself is not inherently expressive conduct"?
Did you know that online data broker Intelius owns more than half of the people search market?
Did you know that the 1932 comedy Pojkarna på Storholmen, starring Fridolf Rhudin, is one of the most successful Swedish films in history?
Did you know that the Aichi D1A was a carrier-borne dive bomber primarily used by the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Second Sino-Japanese War?
Did you know that the Cadillac Northstar LMP Le Mans prototype did not actually use an engine from a Cadillac, but instead an Oldsmobile?
Did you know that the Korean dialect spoken by ethnic Koreans in Japan has changed so much that some of its speakers don't think it can be properly referred to as "Korean" anymore?
Did you know that the White-eyed Gull, a rare gull endemic to the Red Sea, does not have white eyes?
Did you know that the defection of Polish secret police agent Józef Światło in 1953 shook the Polish United Workers' Party and led to the liberalization of Polish October?
Did you know that the first recorded use of "mad as a March hare", which refers to the antics of hares during their breeding season, was written by Sir Thomas More in 1529?
Did you know that the history of invasive and interventional cardiology began with catheters being placed into the right and left ventricles of a living horse in 1711?
Did you know that the lockstep walking was a trademark of the American prison system of the 19th century and sometimes replaced the military step of inmates as a form of punishment?
Did you know that the polymathic Thomas Shaw Brandreth invented the Cycloped, a horse-powered locomotive, and published a blank verse translation of the Iliad into English?
Did you know that Gottlieb Ott changed Berne's cityscape both by constructing new buildings and removing a medieval tower?
Did you know that Martin Lindsay led the 1934 British Trans-Greenland Expedition, which set a world record for travelling 1050 mi (1680 km) using sledges?
Did you know that Thrud the Barbarian, a comic character parodying Arnold Schwarzenegger's depiction of Conan the Barbarian, has the intelligence of a garden snail?
Did you know that a version of the traditional Bengali panjika, the Hindu astrological almanac, comes with an interactive CD-ROM?
Did you know that as Charles I of Austria attempted to regain the Hungarian throne in 1921, Czechoslovakia nearly entered Budapest in order to prevent a Habsburg restoration?
Did you know that bats comprise about 20% of all mammal species found in the Central Oregon Coast Range?
Did you know that none of the storms of the 1970 North Indian Ocean cyclone season in the Arabian Sea made landfall?
Did you know that only three works of Egardus, a fourteenth century composer whose music was known in Flanders, Italy, and Poland, are known to have survived?
Did you know that species of Prosaurolophus, a duckbilled dinosaur, have been described by Barnum Brown and Jack Horner, two of the most prominent paleontologists of the 20th century?
Did you know that the All India Sikh Students Federation was a major part of the movement for a Sikh-majority state of Punjab in India?
Did you know that the Free Belgian Forces fought in several theaters during World War II, including Great Britain, East Africa, the Mediterranean, and northwestern Europe?
Did you know that the Los Angeles Lakers (pictured, in gold and white jerseys) and San Antonio Spurs (black jerseys) had an intense rivalry, during which the two teams won a total of six NBA championships in seven seasons?
Did you know that the study reported in Evaluating a Large Group Awareness Training concluded that attending an LGAT seminar had minimal lasting effects, positive or negative, on participants' self-perception?
Did you know that British philosopher Iain King is attempting to apply the scientific revolution to ethics?
Did you know that Churumuri.com, one of the most popular blogs on WordPress.com, is  named after a snack made of puffed rice that is a speciality of  Mysore, Karnataka in India?
Did you know that David Farragut in 1862 became the first Hispanic U.S. Navy Admiral?
Did you know that Dusky Woodswallows roost together in large flocks during the breeding season to protect their young from predators?
Did you know that First Command Financial Planning, Inc., a financial services company that caters to the U.S. military, was found "willfully" non-compliant related to fraudulent activities in its marketing?
Did you know that Gilbert Jessop called Henry Scattergood America's greatest wicket-keeper?
Did you know that Joachim Piccolomini was repeatedly urged by his fellow Servites to become a priest, but felt unworthy to be anything more than an altar server?
Did you know that Neville Duke was the top Allied fighter ace in the Mediterranean theatre in World War II, having shot down at least 27 aircraft?
Did you know that Sir Charles MacCarthy, the British colonial governor of Sierra Leone and the Gold Coast, was killed by the Ashanti and his head kept as a trophy?
Did you know that Uruguayan footballer Víctor Rodríguez Andrade helped found the Uruguayan Basketball Federation team 25 de Agosto?
Did you know that Zhang Chengzhi, who formed China's first group of Red Guards while a student at Tsinghua University Middle School, converted to Islam?
Did you know that despite the scar literature after the Cultural Revolution in China  contributing to Deng Xiaoping's return to power, he later suppressed it?
Did you know that during the 2007 Rolex 24 At Daytona, Katherine Legge completed the one millionth lap in the history of the race?
Did you know that in the book Beyond Capricorn Peter Trickett claims that the Portuguese were the first to discover Australia, between 1519-24?
Did you know that light echoes appear to exceed the speed of light due to simple interstellar illusions?
Did you know that somewhere between a quarter and a third of Icelanders living in Iceland died due to the 1783 eruption of Laki, and the subsequent famine?
Did you know that the Governors Court in New South Wales had a rule barring ex-convict lawyers from appearing before it, but all of the lawyers in the penal colony were ex-convicts?
Did you know that the Irish–Australian surveyor Robert D. Fitzgerald became so skilled in his hobby of botany that Charles Darwin corresponded with him and 4 plants were named in his honour?
Did you know that the Russian Federal Atomic Energy Agency is building nuclear power plants that float on water?
Did you know that the Tennessee Lady Volunteers basketball program is the only college women's team to appear in every NCAA Tournament and every Sweet 16?
Did you know that the person or group responsible for the blackmail letters of the Glico Morinaga case in Japan is known as the Monster with 21 Faces?
Did you know that , even though the soldiers that constituted the Red Lancers, a horse-mounted military unit, first served as the Dutch Royal Guards, they were almost completely destroyed after their first battle in 1812?
Did you know that 1927 Italian football champions Torino F.C. were stripped of their title for match fixing?
Did you know that Ashley Mallett, Australia's most successful post-war off spinner, had his career curtailed by arthritis?
Did you know that Australian cricketer John Gleeson attributed the finger strength used in his two-finger bowling action to a childhood of milking cows?
Did you know that Dr. Hanumappa Sudarshan was honored with the Right Livelihood Award, also known as alternative Nobel Prize, for showing how tribal culture can help secure the basic rights and needs of indigenous people?
Did you know that Dr. Naseem Ashraf was accused in Dawn of having a hidden agenda of de-Islamisation of  the Pakistan cricket team?
Did you know that Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame inductee John Pesek was also inducted into the Greyhound National Hall of Fame?
Did you know that Shikellamy, an Oneida chief, was an emissary between the Iroquois and colonial government of Pennsylvania for nearly twenty years and helped negotiate several treaties?
Did you know that Wee Chong Jin, one of the former judicial officers of the Republic of Singapore, was the longest-serving Chief Justice of Singapore and of a Commonwealth country, having held the post for over 27 years?
Did you know that during a 1942 air attack on the Koolama, an Australian merchant ship, a man survived a direct hit to his head by a bomb, dropped by a Japanese aircraft?
Did you know that females of the tropical fish subfamily Glandulocaudinae are able to hold sperm in their ovaries for several months?
Did you know that in the 100th meeting of the Red River Shootout, the Texas Longhorns tied their record for biggest margin of victory over their rival, the Oklahoma Sooners?
Did you know that in the early 18th century the Marquis de Ségur owned three of the five most prestigious wine estates in Bordeaux?
Did you know that labor union activist Sam Pollock, who helped lead the Auto-Lite Strike, is the grandfather of noted experimental filmmaker Damon Packard?
Did you know that tens of thousands of Armenian Khachkars have allegedly been destroyed in a systematic manner by the government of Azerbaijan?
Did you know that the 1960 South Vietnamese coup attempt stalled after President Ngo Dinh Diem falsely promised reform, allowing loyalist forces to crush the rebels?
Did you know that the 1964 South Vietnamese coup by General Nguyen Khanh succeeded even though his accomplice General Tran Thien Khiem overslept?
Did you know that the Achelous-class landing craft repair ship USS Krishna and her sister ship USS Indra are the only U.S. Naval vessels to have borne the name of Hindu deities?
Did you know that the Romanian politician Costică Canacheu campaigns for the official recognition of Aromanians as a national minority in his country?
Did you know that the Rothschild giraffe is the most endangered and tallest subspecies of giraffe?
Did you know that the Sugarlands, a valley once known as "Moonshiners' Paradise", is now the location of Great Smoky Mountains National Park headquarters?
Did you know that the body of a 5th-century Germanic warrior found with the Treasure of Pouan was initially thought to be that of Theodoric I?
Did you know that the first documented discovery of gold in California was at Rancho San Francisco in 1842, six years before the California Gold Rush?
Did you know that the genus Brachyplatystoma includes many large species of Amazonian catfish, including one which may reach about 3.6 metres (almost 12 feet) in length?
Did you know that the role of Kanephoros was the most prominent public office a girl or woman could hold in ancient Athens?
Did you know that British Conservative politician Robert Jones was the only person to represent the parliamentary constituency of West Hertfordshire from its creation in 1983 to its abolition in 1997?
Did you know that Du battant des lames au sommet des montagnes (French for "From the beating of the waves to the summit of the mountains") is a legal description of the manner in which the island of Réunion was divided into parcels?