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Did you know that when she played for Great Britain against Australia on 28 July, Rose Anderson became Scotland's first Olympic basketball player?
Did you know that 2012 French Olympic gold medallist Teddy Riner was the first male judoka to win five world titles?
Did you know that 2012 Olympic taekwondo competitor Jade Jones won Great Britain's first ever gold medal at the Youth Olympic Games?
Did you know that Amaryllis was Gordon Ramsay's first Scottish restaurant?
Did you know that California student Sarah Attar is one of Saudi Arabia's first female athletes at the Olympics, and is due to compete at the 2012 Games in an event she hasn't competed in since high school?
Did you know that High Roller was a roller coaster atop the Stratosphere Las Vegas, the tallest observation tower in the United States?
Did you know that Jane Lee is the first woman from Southeast Asia to climb the Seven Summits?
Did you know that Madrona Manor, on the United States' National Register of Historic Places, is now a bed and breakfast inn with a Michelin-starred restaurant?
Did you know that Olympic high jumper Tora Harris, who was a four-time United States national champion, studied mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton University?
Did you know that Winona Beamer, who was expelled from school for dancing the hula, toured with her cousin Mahi Beamer performing both the hula and the Hawaiian art of storytelling?
Did you know that Zach Vincej won the Brooks Wallace Award, given to the best shortstop in college baseball, in 2012?
Did you know that a research team from Gibraltar Museum and a dive club shared an award for investigating around a Detached Mole?
Did you know that if an arm of a feather star breaks off, then at least two will grow to replace it?
Did you know that naturalist Charles Darwin's book Geological Observations on South America is based on travels during the second voyage of HMS Beagle?
Did you know that the Fusiliers' Arch in Dublin was modelled on the Arch of Titus in Rome?
Did you know that the dune brittlestem has a symbiotic relationship with marram grass?
Did you know that the first documented specimens of the spring beauty rust were collected by a former mayor of Buffalo, New York?
Did you know that the fragments of Beethoven's music in the soundtrack of Kagel's film Ludwig van are modified to imitate the way the deaf composer heard his own work?
Did you know that 2012 Australian Olympic cross country mountain biker Rebecca Henderson is coached by cyclist Dan McConnell, who is also set to represent Australia in mountain biking?
Did you know that Andrea St. Bernard is the first Grenadian taekwondo practitioner to be selected for an Olympic Games?
Did you know that Crime and Dissonance, a compilation of work by Ennio Morricone, presents the composer as "a sonic experimentalist"?
Did you know that Everett Scott held the Major League Baseball consecutive games played streak before Lou Gehrig?
Did you know that German-American photographer William Kurtz published the first color images that were widely reproduced?
Did you know that Königsberg alderman Hieronymus Roth was imprisoned for life by Great Elector Frederick William because Roth wanted Ducal Prussia to remain a fief of Poland?
Did you know that Meriwether Lewis discovered the first Lewisia at Lolo Creek, in the mountain range that became known as the Bitterroot Mountains?
Did you know that Tacoma Speedway had a dangerous reputation among drivers because of flying gravel and splinters?
Did you know that anthropologist Gene Weltfish lost her Columbia University faculty job and could not find another when U.S. Senators investigated her for alleged un-American activities?
Did you know that during Clarence Louie's tenure as chief, the Osoyoos Indian Band started the first aboriginal-owned winery in North America?
Did you know that from 1968 to 1971, the role of No. 1 Operational Conversion Unit RAAF was to provide trained aircrew for No. 2 Squadron in Vietnam?
Did you know that sprinter Emily Diamond was selected for Great Britain's 4 × 400 metres relay squad at the 2012 Olympics despite having run the distance outdoors competitively only six times?
Did you know that the Bengali film Mushrooms, shown in the Directors' Fortnight at Cannes, caused controversy in India when its sexually explicit scene was leaked online?
Did you know that the eggs of the Little Black Cormorant are covered in a layer of lime?
Did you know that two decades after a former bank building became the new Astoria City Hall, in Astoria, Oregon, the old city hall became the first home of the Columbia River Maritime Museum?
Did you know that while the mineral magnesiopascoite was discovered in Utah, the two cotype specimens are in a museum in California?
Did you know that 2012 Australian Olympic marathon runner Jessica Trengove won Sydney's 2011 City2Surf?
Did you know that 2012 Australian Olympic modern pentathlete Chloe Esposito, ranked eleventh in the world, is the daughter of a 1984 Olympics modern pentathlete?
Did you know that 2012 British Olympian racewalker Dominic King has a twin brother named Daniel, who beat him in a race at the 2006 Commonwealth Games?
Did you know that Austrian historian Dagobert Frey led the Gestapo in a mass looting campaign from the Warsaw and Kraków museums and national art galleries during the Nazi German occupation of Poland?
Did you know that John Dabiri designed and constructed a wind farm based on the optimal vortex formation of schooling fish?
Did you know that Jørgen Juve was captain of the Norwegian football team that won Olympic bronze medals in Berlin in 1936, after knocking out Germany in the quarter final?
Did you know that Neil Young wrote his classic songs "Cowgirl in the Sand", "Down by the River" and "Cinnamon Girl" while suffering from the flu with a high fever?
Did you know that Ready Teddy is the only three-day eventing horse to have won individual gold medals at both the Olympic Games and the World Equestrian Games?
Did you know that Tim George, who gained only 28 yards in 20 games played in the National Football League as a wide receiver, was elected into two halls of fame?
Did you know that chromium hydride is formed when chromium is electroplated?
Did you know that damage control surgery is often performed in a heated operating room to combat hypothermia?
Did you know that despite becoming British weightlifting champion shortly before the 2012 Olympics, Halil Zorba wasn't named to the British squad for the Games?
Did you know that mountain biker Liam Killeen is due to compete once more for Britain in the 2012 Summer Olympics after crashes took him out of medal contention in the 2004 and 2008 Games?
Did you know that the 1988 BBC television film The Woman He Loved, about the abdication of King Edward VIII, was partially shot at Shirenewton Hall?
Did you know that the Ballon d'Alsace was the first official mountain climb in the Tour de France?
Did you know that the Hamdanid Emir of Mosul, Nasir al-Dawla, was deposed by his own sons and his wife and died imprisoned in a fortress?
Did you know that the Miami Vice episode "No Exit" had its title changed from "Three-Eyed Turtle" when it was discovered the latter was sexual slang?
Did you know that the extinct amphibian Cryobatrachus (restoration pictured) was discovered in the Transantarctic Mountains of Antarctica?
Did you know that the producers of Casting Crowns' eponymous debut album were Mark A. Miller, of country band Sawyer Brown, and contemporary Christian singer Steven Curtis Chapman?
Did you know that there are over sixty painted churches in Cyprus, although a number have been looted since 1974 (detached Pantokrator pictured in Texas)?
Did you know that 1948 Olympics rowing gold medallist Bert Bushnell was involved in the evacuation of Dunkirk during the Second World War?
Did you know that 2012 British Olympian Annie Last deferred from studying medicine at university in order to be a professional mountain biker?
Did you know that Bank on Dave, an alternative to High Street banks in Burnley, Lancashire, now has a waiting list for would-be customers?
Did you know that Gopala Chandra Praharaj spent three decades compiling Purnachandra Odia Bhashakosha, a seven-volume lexicon of the Oriya language?
Did you know that Gustave Caillebotte's 1875 painting Les raboteurs de parquet was rejected by the Salon for its "vulgar subject matter"?
Did you know that Jebel Musa in Morocco is possibly the southern Pillar of Hercules, with the Rock of Gibraltar being the northern pillar?
Did you know that Niki Reiser, composer for such films as Alles auf Zucker!, was awarded the Rheingau Music Prize in 2005 for "suffusing each individual work with its own unique sound"?
Did you know that Olympic shot putter Augie Wolf's son, A.J., was a junior United States national shot put champion?
Did you know that Ruth Ann Steinhagen regularly set an empty place at the dinner table for baseball player Eddie Waitkus before she shot him, becoming one of the first stalkers and an inspiration for The Natural?
Did you know that Samantha Murray will achieve her childhood dream of competing at the Olympics when she participates in the modern pentathlon for Great Britain at the 2012 Games?
Did you know that about 10% of healthy people experience grandiose delusions?
Did you know that following a Facebook campaign, Lee Merrien was named as one of the three British competitors in the marathon at the 2012 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that painter Maurycy Trębacz belonged to the first generation of Jewish artists from Poland who broke away from the age-old religious prohibition on portraying a human figure (1887 painting pictured)?
Did you know that professional goalkeeper Maladi was instrumental in the development of television in Indonesia?
Did you know that race walker Regan Lamble, representing Australia in the 2012 Olympics, commentated a men's race walking event for Eurosport?
Did you know that the Conroy Virtus, intended to carry the Space Shuttle orbiter, would have used two B-52 bomber fuselages in its construction?
Did you know that the General Union of Negro African Workers was one of the main forces behind the 1958 vote for independence in Guinea?
Did you know that the Köllnischer Park in Berlin houses bears (one pictured), known as the city mascots?
Did you know that Confederate Colonel Robert Johnson Henderson's division commander persuaded Henderson to sign his parole at the end of the American Civil War as a brigadier general?
Did you know that El Pi de les Tres Branques is a tree that is regarded as symbolising unity of the "Catalan Countries"?
Did you know that Englishman John Copley was the oldest person ever to receive an Olympic medal, winning silver at the age of 73?
Did you know that General Robert L. Eichelberger was ordered to take Buna, or not come back alive?
Did you know that German sculptor Walter Lemcke designed the first Olympic torch for the 1936 Summer Olympics torch relay, which began the tradition of taking the Olympic Flame to the host city?
Did you know that Jennifer Lopez's song "Invading My Mind", from her seventh studio album Love?, was co-produced by Lady Gaga?
Did you know that Nancy Takes Revenge, a 1930 sequel, was released four months after the original film's conclusion?
Did you know that Paul van Ass, the coach of the Dutch men's hockey team at the 2012 Olympics, generated controversy by not selecting "T&T" for the squad?
Did you know that Weight & Glory by KB reached no. 7 on iTunes after a campaign by the website Rapzilla to push the album into the Top 10?
Did you know that at his fifth Olympics in 2000, British walker Chris Maddocks started injured and entered the stadium in last place as The Proclaimers' I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) was played on loudspeakers?
Did you know that the 1935 film Pareh bankrupted both of its directors, Albert Balink and Mannus Franken?
Did you know that the Stoner archaeological site in Illinois is unusual for its lack of evidence of substantial occupation by any people other than the Allison-Lamotte culture?
Did you know that the design of Henbury Hall in Cheshire, built in the 1980s, is based on Palladio's Villa Rotonda?
Did you know that the extinct snakefly Alavaraphidia is known from a single female trapped in amber?
Did you know that the first Winter Olympic torch relay did not carry the Olympic Flame?
Did you know that "Episode 6188" of the Australian soap opera Neighbours was broadcast in real-time and featured the exit of Mark Brennan?
Did you know that 5% of people who sustain a physical trauma have some form of liver injury?
Did you know that BBC One's Expedition Guyana was renamed Lost Land of the Jaguar to appeal to a wider audience, as a reference to Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World?
Did you know that David Bond took eight weeks of unpaid leave from his job in order to become one of three gold medallists for the British team at the 1948 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that Edward Tyrer, the Commissioner of Police, Hong Kong, was mysteriously approved for early retirement on "health grounds" at the height of the leftist riots in July 1967?
Did you know that Felice Bauer and Franz Kafka first met 100 years ago today in Prague, exchanged hundreds of letters, and were engaged twice?
Did you know that Gelindo Bordin is the only male ever to win both the Boston Marathon and an Olympic gold medal (Seoul 1988) in the marathon?
Did you know that Henry Brown's family initially stayed on their land during New Zealand's First Taranaki War, since a minister's family was considered tapu by the Māori?
Did you know that Irving Gottesman is the first psychologist to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award of the International Society for Psychiatric Genetics?
Did you know that Pindar's First Olympian Ode celebrates victory at the Olympic Games to the strains of the phorminx?
Did you know that Simon & Garfunkel declined an invitation to perform at Woodstock while they were working on the album Bridge Over Troubled Water?
Did you know that a dog was mummified and received a special burial?
Did you know that a patent war fought by Alexander Graham Bell, credited with inventing the telephone, involved 600 lawsuits and lasted 11 years?
Did you know that habana grass is sometimes found as a bird seed contaminant?
Did you know that in 2004, a group of Members of Parliament proposed melting down the statue of Oliver Cromwell which had stood outside the Houses of Parliament for 105 years?
Did you know that shooting for Nuclear Strike's full motion video employed a live tiger and the Batcave?
Did you know that the plot of Crisis Four in the Nick Stone Missions book series, written before the September 11 attacks, involved a plan by Osama bin Laden to destroy the White House?
Did you know that Alicia Keys' song "Un-Thinkable (I'm Ready)" ranked as the number one song on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs 2010 year-end list?
Did you know that Complete & Unbelievable: The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul was Redding's last solo studio album?
Did you know that David J. Lane, the new U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Agencies for Food and Agriculture, was an executive with the ONE Campaign and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation?
Did you know that Ralph Hanan abolished the death penalty in New Zealand by voting against the legislation that he himself introduced into Parliament?
Did you know that Teeology.com, an e-commerce co-founded by Jennifer Lopez, uses new technology and social network tools to "disrupt the traditional retail model"?
Did you know that Time magazine ranked Ronald Reagan's speech at the Berlin Wall in the top 10 greatest speeches?
Did you know that Tomahawk's eponymous album features "some of the most unusual rhythms to be played by human hands since time began"?
Did you know that among pilots of his air group, Japanese ace Makoto Ogawa downed the highest number of Boeing B-29 Superfortresses?
Did you know that in 2012 Jenny McCudden became the first female editor in the 176-year history of the newspaper The Sligo Champion?
Did you know that the Channel 4 popular science series Stephen Hawking: Master of the Universe covers topics ranging from string theory to supersymmetry?
Did you know that the Fourth Fitna pitted two half-brothers, the Abbasid caliphs al-Amin and al-Ma'mun, against each other?
Did you know that the International Sociological Association was established in 1949 under the auspices of UNESCO?
Did you know that the Piedmont winemaker Aldo Conterno served with the U.S. Army in the Korean War?
Did you know that the ant tree is in a mutualistic relationship with certain ant species?
Did you know that the book The Black Hole War, by theoretical physicist Leonard Susskind, covers the scientific debate between Susskind and Stephen Hawking on the black hole information paradox?
Did you know that the first Protestant translation of the New Testament into Polish was published by Jan Seklucjan in Königsberg, in the Polish fief Duchy of Prussia, between 1551 and 1553?
Did you know that the golden zanthid, a colonial coral, often grows on the surface of the green finger sponge?
Did you know that until UCLA's record winning streak ended at 88 games, college basketball player Tommy Curtis had not lost a game since he was 14 years old in high school?
Did you know that "Episode 14" of Twin Peaks features frequent jump cuts between the two actors portraying Laura Palmer's killer?
Did you know that Autographa sansoni is a moth that lives in the Pacific Northwest?
Did you know that Ira B. Thompson was appointed prosecuting attorney of Crenshaw County, Alabama, less than a year after being indicted for his activities within the local Ku Klux Klan organization?
Did you know that Japanese literary critic Hiroki Azuma considered the robot character Multi from To Heart the "most influential character among the male otaku" after Neon Genesis Evangelion?
Did you know that Mollie Phillips was the first woman to carry the flag and lead out her national team at an Olympic Games?
Did you know that Saeed Anwar scored seven of his One Day International centuries at Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium?
Did you know that U.S. President Calvin Coolidge received a large amount of fan mail after publishing his autobiography?
Did you know that Una Guðmundsdóttir, who headed one of the first schools for young children in Iceland, became nationally known as a psychic?
Did you know that Virginia militia (Confederate) brigadier general Gilbert S. Meem moved to Seattle, Washington, in 1892 and was appointed postmaster by U.S. President Grover Cleveland?
Did you know that Zeus was discovered on Mount Olympus?
Did you know that as of the 2010 season, an Indian Premier League umpire receives ₹6 crore (US$710,000) as the salary for serving in one season?
Did you know that equestrian Simon Delestre, when asked if he had any hobbies, said there was no time for them?
Did you know that lip reading is a multimodal process for humans?
Did you know that the  Madrid car bombing that killed seven people was the Basque separatist group ETA's deadliest attack of 1993?
Did you know that the 1992 Birmingham Fire season included the first tie game in World League history with their 17–17 draw against the London Monarchs?
Did you know that the Blanchard's cricket frog is considered threatened or endangered in three states, but is not listed under the US Endangered Species Act?
Did you know that the M&M Boys hold the single-season Major League Baseball record for most combined home runs by teammates with 115?
Did you know that the history of the Shrine of Our Lady of Europe as an aid to navigation has led to it being referred to as "Gibraltar's first lighthouse"?
Did you know that water polo player Maggie Steffens led all scorers in the 2012 Summer Olympics, with 21 goals?
Did you know that "The Mermaid" is a sea ballad, not a sea shanty?
Did you know that 2012 Indian Olympic high jumper Sahana Kumari qualified for the Games after breaking the eight-year-old national record?
Did you know that 51 life-size figures of Indians populate the walk-through re-creation of a 16th-century Native American village in the Mashantucket Pequot Museum?
Did you know that Drexel 4257, a manuscript in the New York Public Library, is the largest collection of English song from the first half of the 17th century?
Did you know that Elizaveta Karamihailova pioneered nuclear research in Bulgaria and made some of the earliest observations of neutron radiation?
Did you know that Hannes Pétursson's poetry has been translated from Icelandic into 12 languages?
Did you know that Javed Miandad is the youngest batsman, and the only teenager, to score a double century in Test cricket?
Did you know that Jeff Luhnow worked as an engineer, management consultant, and technology entrepreneur before shifting to baseball?
Did you know that Korean-Canadian film director Helen Lee made her debut in her pyjamas?
Did you know that Olympic long jump champion Greg Rutherford's great-grandfather won three Football League First Division titles with Newcastle United?
Did you know that Usher's song "Euphoria", from his seventh studio album Looking 4 Myself, was produced by Swedish electronic dance music trio Swedish House Mafia?
Did you know that according to Erika Ramirez of Billboard magazine, the lyrical message of Usher's song "Numb" is "Forget your troubles and fist-pump!"?
Did you know that an individual sponge, Neofibularia nolitangere, may have tens of thousands of parasitic worms, Haplosyllis spongicola, living within its tissues?
Did you know that blue monkey beetles both feed and mate in the dark centres of unscented flowers?
Did you know that job attitude influences performance, rather than the other way around?
Did you know that places in the Yadkin-Pee Dee River Basin inspired locations in the 1960s sitcom The Andy Griffith Show?
Did you know that the 1940 film Kartinah included product placement for Singer?
Did you know that the female Pavon Emperor looks like a California Sister?
Did you know that the troops besieging the British in Gibraltar in 1727 included the founder of the original Hellfire Club?
Did you know that "Overpass Light Brigade" is an activist collaborative public art project where "holders of the light" stand over roadways at night with lighted letters to spell out messages?
Did you know that 2012 Australian athletics Paralympian Katy Parrish trains with Tim Matthews in Melbourne, Victoria?
Did you know that Charles Scribner described his suggestion that the illustrations to The Secret River by Marjorie Rawlings be in cream on coffee-colored paper as "one of my silent contributions to dissolving the color barrier in the 1950s"?
Did you know that Gombloh's song "Kebyar-Kebyar" is the only pop song regularly used in Indonesia's Independence Day ceremonies?
Did you know that Impressionist, Vorticist, Pre-Raphaelite, Expressionist, Surrealist and Cubist painters became First and Second World War camoufleurs?
Did you know that National Hero of Indonesia Sudirman went on a seven-month guerrilla campaign with only one lung?
Did you know that Oevaang Oeray was the first ethnic Dayak governor of West Kalimantan?
Did you know that Professor Claudia-Maria Buch became a member of the German Council of Economic Experts on March 1, 2012?
Did you know that Tim Jorgensen set a new Division III college baseball record with 70 career home runs?
Did you know that William Ott opened the southernmost tram system in the world during his Invercargill mayoralty?
Did you know that a character in Pixar's Ratatouille was based on French chef Hélène Darroze?
Did you know that the 2010 album Mondo Cane by Mike Patton was conceived during the singer's time in Bologna?
Did you know that the Golden Spikes Award is considered the most prestigious award in amateur baseball?
Did you know that the Mahkamah Mosque in Gaza was originally built as a madrasa in 1455 until the Ottomans converted it into a courthouse, hence the name mahkamah?
Did you know that the National Hero of Indonesia Mas Mansoer declared interest forbidden?
Did you know that the Shimōsa Plateau, which occupies most of northern Chiba Prefecture, Japan, is home to Narita International Airport?
Did you know that the first recordings of Gravity began in May 2012?