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Did you know that after the American defeat at the Battle of Canyon Creek the soldiers of Samuel D. Sturgis were forced to slaughter and eat their tired horses?
Did you know that football (soccer) player Law Adam of Grasshopper-Club Zürich played for Switzerland against Austria in 1929, but played for his native Netherlands against Switzerland a year later?
Did you know that football player Eddy de Neve scored all four goals for the Netherlands against Belgium on April 30, 1905, the first match of the Dutch national team ever?
Did you know that the Dugway sheep incident and Operation CHASE increased public sentiment against the United States Army Chemical Corps during the late 1960s and early 1970s?
Did you know that the Silver Centenary biplane, built in Beverley, Western Australia in  1930, received its airworthiness certificate 77 years after its first flight?
Did you know that the first sobering-up station in the world was invented by Jaroslav Skála in 1951 in Czechoslovakia?
Did you know that the new Market Street Bridge over the West Branch Susquehanna River between Williamsport and South Williamsport in Pennsylvania is the seventh on that site, and that three of the previous bridges were destroyed by floods?
Did you know that the schooners San Antonio, San Bernard and San Jacinto of the Second Texas Navy were originally built in 1836 as Baltimore Clippers and fitted out for use in the slave trade in Havana?
Did you know that when American football center Rod Payne broke his right wrist during a Michigan Wolverines football game, he started snapping the ball with his left hand?
Did you know that American football guard Dean Dingman was only the third true freshman to start on the Michigan Wolverines football offensive line?
Did you know that Ancient Qumran: A Virtual Reality Tour is a computer-generated film that presents in 3-D a theoretical reconstruction of the ancient Khirbet Qumran site?
Did you know that Dashiin Byambasüren was the first democratically elected Prime Minister of Mongolia?
Did you know that David Lloyd George, British Prime Minister during World War I, later said "It would be hard to point to anyone who did more to win the war than Kenneth Bingham Quinan"?
Did you know that Dick Rifenburg was a Michigan high school state champion in basketball and track & field, but was drafted to play professional American football?
Did you know that Julius Franks was the first African-American Michigan Wolverines football player to earn All-American honors?
Did you know that Wo Hing Society Hall is one of two existing Chinese Society Halls left on the island of Maui?
Did you know that a statue originally created in 1815 for The Alameda Gibraltar Botanic Gardens was carved from the bowsprit of the Spanish ship San Juan Nepomuceno, taken at the Battle of Trafalgar?
Did you know that in the 1850s the American architect Gamaliel King and his partner John Kellum erected in New York some of the first fully cast iron-fronted buildings in the world?
Did you know that in the wake of the Yen Bai mutiny of Vietnamese soldiers in the French colonial army, large numbers of Vietnamese troops who had served in France were sacked because it was felt that overseas travel made them more inclined to rebel?
Did you know that seven followers of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh were convicted for being part of a 1985 assassination plot to murder the United States Attorney for the District of Oregon?
Did you know that soldiers of the Red Army Oleksiy Berest, Mikhail Yegorov and Meliton Kantaria of the 150th Rifle Division raised the flag of the Soviet Union over the Reichstag for the well-known photograph?
Did you know that the Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti Street Railway was the first operating interurban railroad in the state of Michigan?
Did you know that the Catalan lords Arnau Mir de Tost and his son-in-law Raymond IV of Pallars Jussà shared a scribe, Vidal, who helped introduce the use of written "conventions" for the feudal restructuring of western Catalonia?
Did you know that the Indian novelist M. K. Indira started writing novels only after the age of forty-five?
Did you know that the Lincoln Snacks Company, a manufacturer of caramelized popcorn, was founded, in part, by a subsidiary of Sandoz Laboratories, the company that invented LSD?
Did you know that the clapotis (illustrated) is a standing wave pattern formed at a vertical shoreline?
Did you know that the first Trk receptor, which regulates synaptic strength and plasticity in neurons, was originally identified as part of a fusion gene with the cytoskeletal protein tropomyosin, forming an oncogene in colon and thyroid cancers?
Did you know that the first lieutenant Adolf Opálka, together with six fellow combatants, resisted 800 enemy soldiers for more than seven hours in the Church of St. Cyril and St. Methodious in Prague on 28 June 1942?
Did you know that the original plan for John Keane's painting of Mo Mowlam to include Gerry Adams, John Hume and David Trimble (key figures in the Good Friday Agreement), failed after four years of negotiation?
Did you know that the specifications for the U.S. Navy's World War II icebreakers were so imposing that Western Pipe & Steel was the only shipbuilder to submit a bid?
Did you know that 12% of the world's gold supply, 78% of the world's platinum, and over 15.8 million karats of diamonds come from mining in South Africa?
Did you know that Chalan Beel, a wetland in Bangladesh, is getting vastly reduced in size with fast silting up caused by the inflow of 47 rivers and waterways?
Did you know that Christ Church in Macclesfield was built by Charles Roe for the Rev. David Simpson, because he had been denied a curacy in another church?
Did you know that Hurricane Karen in September 2007 was only classified as a hurricane two months after the storm dissipated?
Did you know that Iordan Chimet, who opposed the Communist regime in Romania and authored fairy tales with subversive messages, was also one of the first professional copywriters in his country?
Did you know that K. Chidananda Gowda, the former Vice-chancellor of the Kuvempu University in India, is the son-in-law of the Kannada playwright Kuvempu, the university's namesake?
Did you know that Knut Arild Hareide became Norwegian Minister of the Environment in 2004 at the age of thirty-one, only to step down from national politics three years later?
Did you know that Tom Wolfe's 1975 book The Painted Word, which criticized modern and conceptual art, was so reviled by the art establishment that multiple reviewers compared the book to watching pornography?
Did you know that Washington Senators outfielder Elmer Gedeon, who pulled a crew member from a burning wreck, died while piloting a B-26 bomber over France?
Did you know that a possible local subsidence forced the Jalangi River, in West Bengal, to flow in a south westerly direction, reverting the earlier trend of rivers in the region flowing in a south easterly direction?
Did you know that archaeologist Natalia Polosmak has been banned from her best known excavation, the Ice Maiden, because of ethnic politics?
Did you know that both the first black woman in Colorado and the "founding father" of the state's Korean American community are buried in Denver's Riverside Cemetery (chapel pictured)?
Did you know that former Michigan Wolverines football player Dan Dworsky designed Crisler Arena, the home of Michigan Wolverines basketball?
Did you know that in the 1806 George Sweeney Trial, the murderer of a founding father of the United States, George Wythe, went free because testimony from black witnesses against a white man was not allowed?
Did you know that it is unclear whether Gungsrong Gungtsen ever ruled Tibet, although he was the only known son of the first Tibetan emperor, Songtsän Gampo?
Did you know that remnants of ancient amphorae indicate wine from Tuscany was exported to southern Italy and France as early as the 7th century BC?
Did you know that some bacteria and parasitic protozoa escape extreme conditions like desiccation and unavailability of food by forming  microbial cysts?
Did you know that the 1751 revolt of Pima Indians in the Spanish colonial province of Sonora (in modern-day Arizona) was directly preceded by a revolt of Seri Indians?
Did you know that the United States Customs and Border Patrol may search all travelers' possessions, including in some cases, personal files on their laptops, without a warrant or even suspicion under the border search exception?
Did you know that the ancient people known as the Oeselians, who lived on the Estonian island of Saaremaa, carried out raids against the Scandinavian Vikings?
Did you know that the rebel Uganda People's Army formed in 1987 in response to massive cattle raiding carried out by the Karamojong of eastern Uganda?
Did you know that Diodore of Tarsus mentored both the sainted John Chrysostom and the heretical Theodore of Mopsuestia?
Did you know that Elk Knob State Park, a state park in Watauga County, North Carolina, was established due to a grassroots movement to protect Elk Knob from housing development?
Did you know that Emperor Alexander III of Russia was billed 4,750 rubles for the Renaissance egg, the final Fabergé egg he presented to his empress consort Maria Feodorovna?
Did you know that French-Canadian historian Charles-Honoré Laverdière believed that the Jesuits had falsified some of the original works of Samuel de Champlain?
Did you know that Jays Foods changed its name during World War II to avoid being associated with the Japanese?
Did you know that Kazimierz Pużak, once considered for president of Poland, was one of the leaders of the Polish Secret State arrested by Soviets and sentenced in the Trial of the Sixteen?
Did you know that after their names became known, the first group known as the Four Crowned Martyrs was venerated with the second group of the same name?
Did you know that although several Michigan Wolverines football wide receivers have eclipsed most of Jack Clancy's team records, they all have needed more games to do so?
Did you know that archaeological excavation of Titelberg provides evidence of urbanisation in Celtic Luxembourg long before Roman expansion?
Did you know that coconut charcoal is easy to light, burns longer and generates less smoke and ash than typical hardwood charcoal?
Did you know that eight small Norwegian municipalities were fooled into investing future income from hydropower plants into complicated financial products - now worthless - from Citigroup, in the so-called Terra Securities scandal?
Did you know that herpetologist Doris M. Cochran, the Smithsonian Institution's first female curator, died four days after her retirement?
Did you know that the Accession Day tilts were jousts held at the court of Queen Elizabeth I in which her courtiers appeared in elaborate allegorical disguises?
Did you know that the Bishopsgate bombing, mounted at a cost of £3,000 by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in 1993, caused over £350M in damages and almost led to the financial collapse of Lloyd's of London?
Did you know that the Brazillian endemic genus Philcoxia, which may represent another genus of carnivorous plants, was formally described in scientific literature 34 years after the first specimen had been discovered?
Did you know that the Platypus Trophy, awarded to the winner of the Civil War college football game between Oregon and Oregon State, was lost for more than 40 years before being found in a closet in 2005?
Did you know that the Rothschild Fabergé egg is the most expensive timepiece, Russian object and Fabergé egg ever sold?
Did you know that the Toledo, Ohio native football player Jim Detwiler refused a recruiting trip invitation to Ohio State prompting a tonguelashing from Woody Hayes for disloyalty to Ohio?
Did you know that the book The Psychology of The Simpsons uses this TV series to analyze topics in psychology including clinical psychology, cognition and Pavlovian conditioning?
Did you know that the erotic depiction on the Oinochoe  by the Shuvalov Painter is one of the most frequently illustrated works of Greek vase painting?
Did you know that the spintronic manipulation of nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond crystals may facilitate the creation and functioning of quantum computers?
Did you know that the wine industry in Nebraska remained dormant for decades after the local commercial grape industry was destroyed by the Armistice Day Blizzard in 1940, with no new winery opening till 1994?
Did you know that Bennie Osler played 17 consecutive rugby union matches for South Africa between 1924 and 1933?
Did you know that Christie's purchase of the Haunch of Venison caused "shock and disbelief" in the art world?
Did you know that DNA testing was used to confirm that the unidentified body known as "Baby Grace" was Riley Ann Sawyers?
Did you know that English botanist John Parkinson included a pun on his name in the title of his monumental 1629 work Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris? (It translates as Park-in-Sun's Terrestrial Paradise.)
Did you know that George Hoey still holds Michigan Wolverines football career, and single-season records 40 years after his best season?
Did you know that Golden Liberty, the political system of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, similar to federation and democracy, became ineffective when faced with the surrounding monarchies?
Did you know that Horatia N. Thompson was christened with Lord Nelson and Mrs Emma Hamilton as godparents and was later adopted by them as an orphan, even though they were her biological parents?
Did you know that Indian schoolteacher D. R. Kaprekar discovered  properties in number theory including a number and a constant named after him?
Did you know that Lucius Volumnius Flamma Violens (The Raging Flame) was the first plebeian consul of the Roman Republic?
Did you know that Mel Tolkin, lead writer for Your Show of Shows, served in the Canadian Army during World War II where he played the glockenspiel in a military orchestra?
Did you know that Mount Harriet, in the Andaman Islands, is named after Robert Christopher Tytler's wife?
Did you know that Pete Muldoon allegedly put an Irish curse on the Chicago Blackhawks that prevented them from finishing first for 43 years?
Did you know that Shamsunnahar Mahmud and Roquia Sakhawat Hussain were Muslim feminists of the Bengal renaissance?
Did you know that U.S. Representative Dale Alford awarded one of his nominations for cadet at the United States Military Academy to Wesley Clark, who later became NATO commander?
Did you know that an elaborate network of coastal batteries was built by British colonial authorities to protect Hobart Town, but it was never used to defend the Tasmanian port from attacks by enemy warships?
Did you know that bead crochet was a popular method of creating women's fashion accessories during the 1920s?
Did you know that in 1979 University of Michigan tackle Ed Muransky set the all-time record at the traditional pre-Rose Bowl "Beef Bowl" by eating 16 pounds of prime rib?
Did you know that most Swiss immigrants to Russia, several thousand in all, left  after the October Revolution in 1917?
Did you know that the 1609 Treaty of Antwerp was influenced by the writings of Hugo Grotius in the Mare Liberum, which was published at the insistence of the Dutch East India Company during the course of the treaty negotiations?
Did you know that the Galatasaray S.K. has origins from the Ottoman Empire era?
Did you know that the German R&B band Soultans signed on with the same record label which wrote some of Elvis Presley's songs?
Did you know that the Wanganui Branch railway folded due to competition from trams in New Zealand?
Did you know that the price of cocoa rose sharply following the June 29, 2007 assassination attempt against Prime Minister Guillaume Soro of Côte d'Ivoire?
Did you know that the strategic bombing campaign used in the 1990 Operation Instant Thunder served as a model for subsequent American military conflicts?
Did you know that the surface diffusion of atoms on a material's surface is governed by Fick’s law?
Did you know that with the Trusty system of prison labor at Mississippi State Penitentiary, the 1,900-inmate prison  was staffed and its 16,000 acres of crops farmed with only 150 paid employees?
Did you know that Alpha Kappa Alpha founder, Marie Woolfolk Taylor was one of two African-Americans who assisted the Red Cross during the Great Atlanta Fire?
Did you know that Emperor Nicholas II of Russia was billed 3,250 rubles for Rosebud, the first Fabergé egg he presented to his empress consort Alexandra Fyodorovna?
Did you know that Gerald Ford's two greatest regrets in life were losing the starting center job in college to All-American Chuck Bernard and losing a presidential election?
Did you know that Heroes actor David Anders won a Back Stage West Garland Award along with the ensemble cast of The Diary of Anne Frank, for their 2001 production?
Did you know that Jonathan Swift called his predecessor "that rascal Dean Jones" because he made such bad property leases  whilst Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin?
Did you know that The Simpsons' history began when Matt Groening conceived of the dysfunctional family in the lobby of James L. Brooks's office?
Did you know that Wing Commander Stanley Goble and Flying Officer Ivor McIntyre, piloting a single-engined seaplane, became the first men to circumnavigate Australia by air in 1924?
Did you know that a fossil specimen of Pelagosaurus  was found with the remains of a Leptolepis in its stomach?
Did you know that after losing his European Parliament seat, Roger Barton set up a group offering llama-trekking to young people from Sheffield?
Did you know that before David Myatt converted to Islam in 1998 and endorsed Islamic terrorism, he had been active in Nazi satanism in the UK since the late 1960s?
Did you know that during World War II, Marine Fighting Squadron 215 established four new U.S. Marine Corps records in the South Pacific including having the most ace pilots?
Did you know that during the 1905 Chicago Teamsters' strike, 21 people were killed and the strike ended only after union leaders were accused of taking bribes?
Did you know that eradication of infectious diseases can come about through vaccination, quarantine, and even just human behavioral changes, depending on the disease?
Did you know that former Australian cricket captain Bill Brown was the first player to be "Mankaded"?
Did you know that in the 1896 Yamagata-Lobanov Agreement negotiations, Japanese Prime Minister Yamagata Aritomo proposed dividing Korea at the 38th parallel, should Japanese and Russian troops occupy the peninsula?
Did you know that maidams were burial sites of the Ahom Kingdom's royalty and aristocracy that were similar to the Egyptian pyramids, but much smaller in scale?
Did you know that the 1928 movie Gang War was overshadowed by the short film attached to it, Steamboat Willie, which marked the début of Mickey Mouse?
Did you know that the Battle of Bhangani was the first battle fought by Guru Gobind Singh, the last human Sikh Guru?
Did you know that the Saraswati River, a distributary of the Bhagirathi in West Bengal, is now dead but was active till around the 16th century AD?
Did you know that the Swedish military unit Kustjägarna has been working in Kosovo and Bosnia under the UN flag?
Did you know that the U.S. Coast Guard's Owasco class cutters Owasco, Winnebago and Sebago were armed for World War II service but did not see combat until the Vietnam War?
Did you know that the White Mosque is the oldest mosque in Nazareth?
Did you know that the arrival of Prussian troops led by Anton Wilhelm von L'Estocq prevented a Russian defeat in the 1807 Battle of Eylau?
Did you know that Adam, Count of Schwarzenberg reportedly died of fright instilled by his own mercenaries?
Did you know that Alpha Kappa Alpha founder Nellie Quander belonged to one of America's longest and oldest free slave dynasties?
Did you know that Are You There? was widely promoted because of its score by Ruggero Leoncavallo (best known for his opera Pagliacci), but the first-night audience were incensed when it turned out to have very little music?
Did you know that Australian basketball player Patrick Mills is only the third Indigenous Australian male to ever play for his country's national team?
Did you know that Bronze Age golden hats, including those of Berlin, Schifferstadt and Ezelsdorf, are tall gold head-dresses from circa 1,000 to 800 BC that also served as calendars?
Did you know that Dennis Freeman, as the mayor of tiny Logansport, Louisiana, worked for 16 years to keep the construction of a new bridge over the Sabine River to connect Louisiana and Texas as a high construction priority?
Did you know that Elm Coulee Oil Field, Montana, is the highest-producing onshore field found in the Continental United States in the past 56 years?
Did you know that Graham Perrett, the Australian House of Representatives member for Moreton, was accused of calling his rival, Gary Hardgrave, "racist" during the 2007 election campaign?
Did you know that Jean Pouliot founded both major private TV networks in Quebec, TQS and TVA?
Did you know that Medal of Honor recipient Captain Julien Gaujot became so jealous when his brother was given the Medal of Honor that he vowed that he would get one too?
Did you know that Out of the Blue, a BBC Television series, is set in Manly, near Sydney, Australia?
Did you know that The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne is actually composed of 110 letters between Gilbert White, and Thomas Pennant or Daines Barrington?
Did you know that The Simpsons and Philosophy: The D'oh! of Homer, a book that analyzes the The Simpsons using philosophical concepts, is the main textbook in some university philosophy courses?
Did you know that William Mainwaring argued that possession of holy scripture by British troops might be included in a list of documents liable to incite disaffection?
Did you know that according to Greek mythology, Adonis was slain by a boar at the foot of the waterfall in Apheca in modern-day Lebanon?
Did you know that actor Michael Sellers, son of British actor Peter Sellers, died of the same cause (heart attack) and date, albeit twenty-six years later, as his father?
Did you know that actress Evelyn Venable, the voice of the Blue Fairy in the animated film Pinocchio, was the original model for the Columbia Pictures logo?
Did you know that alkaptonuria, a rare inborn error of metabolism, is over five times more common in Slovakia than in the rest of the world?
Did you know that anarchism once was the strongest current in the Cuban labor movement?
Did you know that college football coach Bo Schembechler died the day after attending the funeral of his 1971 quarterback Tom Slade and urging the football team to be "as good a Michigan man as Slade"?
Did you know that indigenous peoples of the Russian Far East traditionally worshiped the Raven deity Kutkh as a key figure in creation, as a fertile ancestor of mankind, as a mighty shaman and as a trickster?
Did you know that pit vipers and some boas and pythons have specialized facial pits for sensing infrared radiation?
Did you know that the BAE Systems HERTI is the only fully autonomous UAV to have been certified by the United Kingdom Civil Aviation Authority?
Did you know that the Environmental Theory by Florence Nightingale emphasized how a patient's environment affects his recovery?
Did you know that the Houston Volunteers signed up to replace those lost aboard USS Houston after its sinking in 1942 by the Japanese Navy?
Did you know that the Mount Sandel Mesolithic site in Coleraine, County Londonderry is the oldest archaeological site in Ireland?
Did you know that the cloven hoof is a characteristic of mountain goats, certain kosher foods and in some traditions, the Devil?
Did you know that the first co-ed school in Azerbaijan was founded by Hamida Javanshir in 1908?
Did you know that the free surface of a free liquid in zero-g forms a perfect sphere?
Did you know that the history of Nairobi includes the 1998 U.S. embassy bombing that killed 213 and wounded 5,000?
Did you know that the original designation for Route 574 in Erie County, New York and its eastern terminus were removed four years apart?